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A brief record of seed-grain advanced to the farmer Petesouchos son of Harpagathes for 3 1/2 arouras of royal land in the cleruchy of Patsontis, dated year 22 of Antoninus. It comes from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum) in the mid 2nd century AD.
Year 22 of Antoninus Pius would be AD 158/159. The month is not given, and the amount of seed after the acreage is illegible; such advances were usually about one artaba per aroura and were repaid after the harvest with a surcharge.
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 κα κληρουχίας Πατσώντεως βασιλικῆς Πετεσοῦχος Ἁρπαγάθου ἀρουρῶν γ 𐅵 …
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