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A receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis, in which the farmer Onnophris son of Petheus acknowledges receiving a seed-grain advance for the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius, after making a sworn declaration. The seed was for just over 9 1/4 arouras of royal land.
Royal land was state-owned land leased to cultivators, who received seed advances repaid with interest after harvest. The figure 5 and the supplied word 'cleruchy' are of uncertain meaning in this context.
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 σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ε κληρουχίας Ὀννῶφρις Πεθέως Ψεναρψενήσεως βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν θ δ ιϛ ξδ
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