Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought by a Palemon, in the name of a Ptollas, to an unknown harbor
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9949
Receipt for grain transported by donkeys from the granary of Karanis TM 9949probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMay 27, 298 A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt recording the transport of grain from the granary of Karanis by three donkeys, credited to Ptollas son of Sokrates and delivered through Palemon. It is dated Pauni 2 of the regnal years 14, 13 and 6, that is 27 May 298.
In English machine translation
(From the) granary of the village of Karanis,
for horiodeiktia, from the produce of year 13 and year 12 and year 5, in the name of Ptollas son of Sokrates, through Palemon,
by means of the animals of the same:
three donkeys, total 3.
Year 14 and 13 and 6, Pauni 2.
Horiodeiktia was a levy in kind connected with boundary-marking, here paid in grain. The triple year numbers reflect the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars.
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.3.1067
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος ὑπὲρ ὁριοδεικτίας γενήματος ιγ ἔτους ιβ ἔτους ε ἔτους ὀνόματος Πτολλᾶ Σωκράτους διὰ Παλήμονος διὰ κτηνῶν τοῦ αὐτοῦ ὄνοι τρεῖς, γίνονται γ. ἔτους ιδ ιγ ϛ Παῦνι β.