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A short receipt addressed to the grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis, in which the farmer Kanis son of Patsontis acknowledges receiving seed grain for year 22 of Antoninus Pius to sow a small plot of royal land. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the mid 2nd century AD.
Such seed advances were repaid after the harvest with an added charge. The figures in the last line are read here as fractions of an aroura, and the opening '16' may be an entry number or a day; the reading 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 σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ιϛ κληρουχίας Κερᾶς Κάνιος Πατσώντεως βασιλικῆς ἀρούρης 𐅵 δ ιϛ ξδ
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