Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain by a Demetrios in the name of a Potammon to an unknown harbor
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9944
Receipt for grain carried by donkeys from the granary of Karanis TM 9944probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptFebruary 2, 289 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that grain from the harvests of years 3 and 4, credited to Potammon, was carried from the village granary of Karanis by five donkeys driven by Demetrios, through the agency of Isidoros. It is dated 2 February AD 289.
In English machine translation
Granary of the village of Karanis, within its boundaries (?).
Produce of the 4th year and 3rd year, in the name of Potammon,
through Isidoros, by means of the animals of […]
through Demetrios, five donkeys,
total 5 donkeys.
Year 5 and 4, Mecheir 8.
The abbreviation 'horiod(eiktias)' refers to the village's boundary district, a fiscal term with no exact English equivalent. The double regnal year (5 and 4) reflects the joint reign of Diocletian and Maximian.
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.3.1062
θησαυροῦ κώμης ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος δ ἔτους καὶ γ ἔτους ὀνόματος Ποτάμμονος διὰ Ἰσιδώρου διὰ κτηνῶν […] διὰ Δημητρίου ὄνοι πέντε , γίνονται ὄνοι ε ἔτους ε καὶ δ Μεχεὶρ η.