Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to the harbor of Leukogion by Palemon
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9958
Receipt for wheat transported by donkey from the Kerkesoucha granary to Leukogion harbor TM 9958Kerkesoucha, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 4, 304 or 312 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording that Palemon, acting through Venaphris, had wheat of the 19th year's harvest carried from the granary at Kerkesoucha near Karanis to the harbor of Leukogion by the donkey-driver Ares. It is dated Tybi 8, corresponding to 4 January 312 (or possibly 304) AD.
In English machine translation
At the granary of the village of Kerkesoucha of Karanis, Palemon, through Venaphris (?), transferred to the harbor of Leukogion, of the produce of the 19th year, through Ares, donkey-driver, wheat: 1 donkey-load, 1/2 (artaba?).
Tybi 8.
One record allows a date of either 304 or 312 AD, depending on which regnal 19th year is meant. The figure after the single donkey-load (a sign for 1/2) is of uncertain meaning.
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.3.1079
ἐν θησαυρῷ κώμης Κερκεσούχων Καρανίδος μετέβαλεν Παλήμων διὰ Οὐεναφρίου εἰς ὅρμον Λευκογίου γενήματος ιθ ἔτους διὰ Ἄρεως ὀνηλάτου πυροῦ ὄνον α 𐅵. Τῦβι η.