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A receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis, in which the farmer Sarapion son of Ptolemaios acknowledges receiving an advance of seed-grain for sowing in the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius. It comes from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum) in the mid-2nd century AD.
The numeral 13 with the abbreviation for klerouchia probably designates a numbered allotment district; the amount of grain and the last line are lost. Seed loans like this were repaid after the harvest with an added charge.
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 ιγ κληρουχίας Σαραπίων Πτολεμαίου […] βασιλικῆς […]
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