Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought by a Satabous to an unknown harbor
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9950
Receipt for grain transported by camel from the granary of Hiera TM 9950probably Hiera (Nesos), Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 14, 298 A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt recording that two camel-loads of grain from the harvests of years 13, 12 and 5 were delivered from the granary of the village of Hiera, credited to Satabous. It is dated Pauni 20 of years 14, 13 and 6, that is 14 June 298, and comes from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
In the granary of the village of Hiera, from the produce of year 13
and year 12 and year 5, in the name of Satabous,
2 camels, total 2.
Year 14 and 13 and 6,
Pauni 20
The triple regnal years refer to the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars. One record places the text at Karanis and another probably at Hiera (Nesos), the village named in the granary.
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.3.1068
ἐν θησαυρῷ κώμης Ἱερᾶς γενήματος ιγ ἔτους καὶ ιβ ἔτους καὶ ε ἔτους ὀνόματος Σαταβοῦτος κάμηλοι δύο, γίνονται β. ἔτους ιδ καὶ ιγ καὶ ϛ Παῦνι κ