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A seed-corn receipt addressed to the grain collectors (sitologoi) of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, in which the farmer Herakleides son of Abykis acknowledges receiving seed for sowing royal land at Kerkesoucha and land associated with Severus. It dates to year 22 of Antoninus Pius, in the mid-2nd century AD.
The fractions are given as written and may express amounts of seed (artabas) reckoned per aroura rather than land areas; the word for the 21st kleruchy is supplied by the editor. Seed loans like this were repaid after the harvest with an added charge.
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 σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου κα κληρουχίας Ἡρακλείδης Ἀβυκεως Κερκεσούχων βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν γ δ ιϛ λβ ρκη ὁμοίως Σεουήρου ἀρουρῶν β δ η λβ ρκη
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