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A short record of a seed-grain advance for year 22 of the emperor Antoninus Pius, issued to the farmer Sarapion son of Pnepheros for 9 arouras of land on the Antonian estate in the 11th kleruchy. It comes from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum) in the mid 2nd century AD.
Seed-grain advances were issued before sowing and repaid with interest after the harvest. The Antonian estate (ousia) was an imperial estate, and the final figure after the 9 arouras is incomplete.
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…
σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος ια κληρουχίας Ἀντωνιανῆς οὐσίας Σαραπίων Πνεφερῶτος ἀρουρῶν θ η […]
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