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the son of Maron, whose name occurs repeatedly on the Karanis ostraca33 (pl. X, 1). With Amundsen, we must allow that it may be a receipt for delivery of grain to the granary rather than transportation from the granary to a river port." As published, it runs as follows:


The hand that wrote No. 369 also wrote two ostracon texts, Inv. 9841 and 9843, which have not previously been published. A comparison of these with No. 369 has established the true reading. The texts are given below in chronological order.

Inv. 9843

33. O. Mich., I, Index IV; II, Index IV; CF, XXXIX, 1944, P. 32, n. 41
34. For the annual transportation of government grain see Hohlwein, études de papyrologie, IV, 1938, pp. 99 ff.; Amundsen, 0. Oslo, pp. 56-9; introd. to P. Col., II, 1 rectos 4 (P. 103 for bibliography), 5, and to Frisk, Bankakten, i. A document of considerable interest for land and water transport in the Ptolemaic era is P. Tebt., 111, 703, 70-87 (see commentary for bibliography) ; in the Roman period, P. Oxy., XVIII, 2182 (Cf. CW, XXXVI, 1943, pp. 7-9).
35. TAPA, LXXI, 1940, p. 632.
36. Preisigke and Kiessling, Wörterbuch d. griech. Papyrusurkunden, Berlin, 1925-31, s.vv
37. is not listed in Preisigke's Namenbuch, Sammelbuch, or Berichtigungsliste, nor in Pape's 		    Wörterbuch d. griech. Eigennamen, 3rd ed., Braunschweig, 1911.
40. The nominative after is fairly common in the ostracon receipts, as, e.g., O. Mich., II, 891, 5 ; 892, 2-3 ; 905, 3 ; 909, 3 ; 911, 3 ; 915, 4. n. 32; P. Harris, 93, introd.
41. Read .

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