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A seed-loan receipt addressed to the grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome. Petermouthis son of Kastor acknowledges receiving seed grain for year 22 of Antoninus Pius (about AD 158/9) to sow cleruchic revenue land at Kerkesoucha and royal land at Karanis.
The figure 26 after the emperor's name is probably the amount of seed in artabas, roughly one artaba per aroura. Seed advances like this 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…
σιτολόγοις Καρανίδος ἔσχον προσφωνήσας χειρογραφίᾳ σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου κϛ κληρουχίας Πετερμοῦθις Κάστορος Κερκεσούχων προσόδου ἀρουρῶν γ δ λβ Καρανίδος βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν β 𐅵 δ
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