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A receipt addressed to the village grain collectors (sitologoi) of Karanis by the farmer Kanis son of Anchophis, acknowledging an advance of seed grain for 7 arouras of royal land in year 22 of Antoninus Pius. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the mid 2nd century AD.
Seed advances like this were repaid after the harvest with an added charge. Several abbreviations (the declaration formula, the patronymic Patsontis, the klerouchia number) are expanded by the editor and their exact sense is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Grain receipt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Receipt given to the sitologoi (village grain collectors) by a farmer for an advance of seed-corn issued to enable him to sow the lands assigned him. The distribution was made in the late autumn, and probably at the rate of one artaba of grain for each aroura of land. These adv…
σιτολόγοις Καρανίδος ἔσχον προσφωνήσας χειρογραφίᾳ προχρείαν χειρόγραφον σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου γ κληρουχίας Κᾶνις Ἀγχώφεως Πατσώντεως βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν ζ
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