Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain to an unknown harbor by Didymos, in the name of a son of Heraklas
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9942
Receipt for two sacks of grain transported from the Karanis granary TM 9942probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptOctober/November, 280[?] A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt recording the transport of two sacks of grain from the year-4 harvest out of the Karanis granary, credited to Heraklas (or his son) and carried by Didymos, a donkey-driver. It is dated Hathyr of year 5 and comes from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Of the produce of year 4, from the granary of Karanis … Heraklas, by the camels of Karanis, through Didymos, donkey-driver, two sacks,
total 2 sacks. Year 5, Hathyr …
The text names camels of Karanis but the carrier Didymos is called a donkey-driver; the illegible traces after 'Karanis' may contain a name, perhaps the son of Heraklas whom the museum description names as payer. The year AD 280 is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Transportation by Donkeys and Camels. 3. Delivery from the Granary to the Harbor). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.mich.3.1060
γενήματος δ ἔτους θησαυροῦ Καρανίδος …… Ἡρακλᾶ διὰ καμήλων Καρανίδος διὰ Διδύμου ὀνηλάτου σάκκους δύο, γίνονται σάκκοι β. ἔτους ε Ἁθὺρ …