Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought by a Palemon to an unknown harbor
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9952
Receipt for grain transport by donkeys from Karanis TM 9952probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMarch 15, 300 A.D.
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A receipt on an ostracon recording the transport by 14 donkeys of grain from Karanis, credited to Palemon, under the supervision of the dekaprotoi Horion and Philotas. It is dated 15 March AD 300, in the regnal years of the Tetrarchs.
In English machine translation
For the boundary-survey tax (?) of Karanis, of the produce of year 15, year 14, year 7,
(through) the dekaprotoi Horion and Philotas,
in the name of Palemon,
14 donkeys,
total 14. Year 16, 15, 8, Phamenoth 19.
Horiodeiktia was an impost connected with the boundary survey, collected in grain. The triple regnal years refer to the co-ruling emperors of the Tetrarchy.
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.3.1073
ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος γενήματος ιε ἔτους ιδ ἔτους ζ ἔτους δεκαπρώτων Ὡρίωνος καὶ Φιλώτα ὀνόματος Παλήμωνος ὄνοι δεκατέσσαρες, γίνονται ιδ. ἔτους ιϛ ιε η Φαμενὼθ ιθ.