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A seed-grain receipt in which Ptolemaios son of Diogenes of Karanis acknowledges to the village grain officials (sitologoi) that he has received seed for sowing in the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius. The seed is for land of the Senecan estate measuring about 1 13/16 arouras, in the Arsinoite nome.
Seed-grain advances like this were repaid after the harvest with a surcharge. "Senecan" refers to a former private estate (ousia) named after a Seneca, probably the philosopher.
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 θ κληρουχίας Πτολεμαῖος Διογένους Καρανίδος Σενεκιανῆς ἀρούρης α 𐅵 δ ιϛ
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