Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought by a Doulos to an unknown harbor
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9955
Receipt for grain transported by donkeys from the granary of Karanis TM 9955probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMarch 24, 302 A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt from the granary of Karanis recording that three donkeys carried grain from the harvest of the 17th, 16th and 9th regnal years, in the name of Doulos son of Aion, under the dekaprotos Gerontios. It is dated 24 March AD 302.
In English machine translation
[Granary] of the village of Karanis,
[dekaprotos] Gerontios, from the produce of the 17th and 16th and
[9th year], in the name of Doulos son of Aion,
3 [donkeys].
[Year 18 and] 17 and 10, Phamenoth 28.
The triple regnal years refer to the joint reigns of the Tetrarchy (Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars). A dekaprotos was a liturgical official responsible for collecting grain taxes; the month written Phanenoth is Phamenoth.
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.3.1076
θησαυροῦ κώμης Καρανίδος δεκαπρώτου Γεροντίου γενήματος ιζ καὶ ιϛ καὶ ἐνάτου ἔτους ὀνόματος Δούλου Ἀιώνεως ὄνοι γ. ἔτους ιη καὶ ιζ καὶ ι Φανενὼθ κη.