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A receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis acknowledging an advance of seed grain for sowing in the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius. It names Orsenouphis son of Petheus and refers to cleruchic land of 15 arouras.
Seed advances were loans repaid after the harvest with a surcharge. The last line is damaged and the exact relation of the figures 15 and 16 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 σπερμάτἦἷ κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ιε κληρουχίας Ὀρσενοῦφις Πεθέως Ψεναρψενήσεως Φιλοδ[…]λ ἀρουρῶν ιε ιϛ
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