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A short receipt or record of a seed-corn advance issued for sowing in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/9) to the farmer Harpekysis son of Ptollis, for a small plot of royal land. It comes from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum).
"Royal land" was state-owned land leased to public farmers, who received seed advances repaid with interest after the harvest. The opening of line 3, read as "23 cleruchy", and the expansion "Patsontis" are uncertain; the area is read as 1/2 1/8 aroura.
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 Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου κγ κληρουχίας Ἁρπεκῦσις Πτόλλιδος Πατσώντεως βασιλικῆς ἀρούρης 𐅵 η
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