Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for delivery of grain brought to the harbor of Kerke by a Kopres
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9961
Receipt for barley carried from the Karanis granary to the harbor of Kerke TM 9961probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt312/313[?] A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that Kopres son of Pannous transferred grain from the granary of Karanis to the Nile harbor of Kerke, using donkeys belonging to Eudaimon. He delivered 4 donkey-loads of barley for the harvests of years 8 and 6, probably in AD 312/313.
In English machine translation
At the granary of Karanis.
Kopres son of Pannous has delivered at the harbor of Kerke, for the produce of year 8 and year 6, by means of the animals of Eudaimon, barley: 4 donkey-loads.
The verb metebalen is a technical term for transferring grain from a village granary to a river harbor for onward shipment. The regnal years 8 and 6 probably refer to the co-reigning emperors of the period.
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.3.1081
ἐν θησαυρῷ Καρανίδος μετέβαλεν Κοπρῆς Παννοῦς ἐν ὅρμῳ Κερκὴ ὑπὲρ γενήματος η ἔτους καὶ ϛ ἔτους διὰ κτηνῶν Εὐδαίμονος κριθῆς ὄνους δ.