Receipt for Transport of Grain
Receipt for transport of grain to an unknown harbor by Alypios, in the name of a Komon
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9962
Receipt for donkey transport of wheat from the granary of Karanis TM 9962probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 3, 313 A.D.
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
An ostracon receipt recording that five donkey-loads of wheat from the harvests of years 8, 6 and 4 were carried from the granary of Karanis by the donkey-driver Alypios, in the name of Komon son of Kallonios, through the granary official Dioskoros. It is dated 3 January 313 at Karanis.
In English machine translation
In the granary of the village of Karanis, district of Ptolemais, through Dioskoros, sitologos, of the produce of year 8 and year 6 and year 4, in the name of Komon son of Kallonios, through Alypios, donkey-driver: wheat, 5 donkey-loads.
Year 9, Tybi 8.
A sitologos was the village official responsible for the public granary. The text names the district as 'part of Ptolemais', while one catalogue places Karanis in the Herakleides division of the nome.
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.3.1082
ἐν θησαυρῷ κώμης Καρανίδος μέρους Πτολεμαίδος διὰ Διοσκόρου σιτολόγου γενήματος η ἔτους καὶ ϛ ἔτους καὶ δ ἔτους ὀνόματος Κόμωνος Καλλωνίου διὰ Ἀλυπίου ὀνηλάτου πυροῦ ὄνοι ε. θ ἔτους Τῦβι η.