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A seed-corn receipt addressed to the village grain collectors (sitologoi) of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome. The farmer Chairemon son of Petheus acknowledges receiving seed for the 22nd year of Antoninus (Pius) to sow royal land at Karanis and land of the Germanician estate at Kerkesoucha.
The 22nd year of Antoninus Pius would be AD 158/9. The figures "13" and "16" are given as numerals in the text and their exact meaning (cleruchy number, fractions or quantities in artabas) is uncertain.
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 σπερμάτωνκβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ιγ κληρουχίας Χαιρήμων Πεθέως Καρανίδος βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν γ ιϛ Κερκεσούχων Γερμανικιανῆς ἀρούρης α ιϛ
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