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A brief record of a seed-grain advance issued in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159) in the Arsinoite nome, concerning the farmer Papeiris son of Onnophris for cleruchic and royal land. Such advances were repaid after the harvest with interest.
The text is highly abbreviated and its figures are hard to interpret; the fractions after 'royal land' appear to give a rate or amount of seed per aroura. Cleruchic land was land originally assigned to military settlers, while royal land was crown land worked by state farmers.
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 τοῦ κυρίου ιδ κληρουχίας Παπεῖρις Ὀννώφρεως Πατσώντεως βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῆς 𐅵 η ιϛ ξδ
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