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Fragment of a receipt for an advance of seed grain issued for sowing in the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius. It names Julius Saturninus in connection with a cleruchic holding at Ptolemais and 3 arouras of revenue land. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the mid-2nd century AD.
The numeral 13 (ιγ) may belong to a numbered cleruchy or to a date, and its sense is uncertain. Such seed advances were repaid after the harvest with an addition for interest and collection costs.
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 δευτέρου καὶ εἰκοστοῦ ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ιγ κληρουχίας Ἰούλιος Σατορνῖλος Πτολεμαίδος προσόδου ἀρουρῶν τριῶν
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