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A seed-grain receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome. The farmer Petheus son of Pasoknopaios acknowledges receiving seed for sowing 5 arouras in the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/9).
The figure 11 probably gives the amount of seed in artabas, though the text leaves the unit unstated. Year 22 of Antoninus Pius corresponds to AD 158/9; Ptolemais Germanikiane is a land-holding district (kleruchy) named after a former settler unit.
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 ια κληρουχίας Πεθεὺς Πασοκνοπαίου Πτολεμαίδος Γερμανικιανῆς ἀρουρῶν ε
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