Advance of Seed Corn
Receipt addressed to the sitologi or keepers of granaries by DHMOSIOI GEWRGOI ( public notaries/ farmers) acknowledging the advance of seed corn. (Grenfell, Hunt, & Hogarth)
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10923
Receipt for an advance of seed corn for 5 arouras TM 10923Umm el Atl (Fayum)141-142 CE
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A receipt in which Orsenouphis the elder, a farmer, acknowledges receiving seed grain advanced for sowing 5 arouras of land in the 5th year of Antoninus Pius. It comes from Bakchias in the Fayum and dates to AD 141-142.
In English machine translation
I, Orsenouphis the elder, son of Sambas son of Orsenouphis, have received, having declared it by written declaration, seed for the present 5th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, for 5 arouras.
Such seed loans were advanced by the state granaries to public farmers. The term rendered 'written declaration' (cheirographia) means a signed written statement; 'presbyteros' here likely means 'the elder' rather than a village office.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Advance of Seed Corn). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.fay.80
ἔσχον προσφωνήσας χειρογραφίᾳ σπερμάτων τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ε ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ Κυρίου Ὀρσενοῦφις πρεσβύτερος Σαμβᾶ τοῦ Ὀρσενούφιος ἀρουρῶν ε.