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A seed-corn receipt addressed to the grain collectors (sitologoi) of Karanis, recording that Sarapion son of Sarapion of Kerkesoucha received seed for sowing in the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159). It specifies the area of royal land and land of the Senecan estate for which the seed was issued.
The 'Senecan' land (Senekiane) was a former private estate named after an earlier owner, probably the philosopher Seneca, later absorbed into imperial property. The number 27 and the abbreviation read as 'cleruchy' are uncertain in meaning.
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 κζ κληρουχίας Σαραπίων Σαραπίωνος Κερκεσούχων βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν β 𐅵 δ ιϛ λβ ξδ ὁμοίως Σενεκιανῆς ἀρούρης α
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