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us directly to a group of Karanis ostraca which bear receipts for . 25 The majority of these also consist of two lines. The oblique strokes, which stand at the end of the second line of No. 295, are found frequently on Karanis ostraca of comparable date, at the conclusion of two-line receipts, when these end in a money statement.26

A fresh study of the ostracon, guided by these observations, has yielded an intelligible text.

NO. 295 (revised)

Inv.9354

Here a certain Acusilaus, the son of Maron, has paid eight drachmas in silver "on account of ."

 

4. 0. Mich., I, 369

This text is a transportation receipt of the late third century A.D., issued to Manes,
25. TAPA, LXXI, 1940, pp. 642-5; 0. Mich., 11, 737-44 26. 0. Mich., 1, 122 (revised in TAPA, LXXI, 1940, p. 644), 124 (revised ibid.), 301, 302; 11, 701, 702, 712, 728, 737-39, 746, 748, 757, 761, 762, 767, 769. 27. Ostr. , which accounts nicely for Amundsen's . 28. The numerals are not completely preserved, but they are readily reconstructed from the sizable remains. A slight doubt persists with regard to ', but this uncertainty is practically eliminated by two considerations. (i) The special mark of the "thousand" is unmistakable, and (2) the remnant of the numeral is hard to adapt to any except the large-bellied form assumed by when it is combined with the supralinear "thousand" curve. When complete, this writing of "2000" resembles an English b. For good examples see Stud. Pal., XX, 8 1, 6, 13. The letter can also be extremely deceptive when it is mutilated. In 0. Mich.,    

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