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Receipt for an advance of seed grain addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis by the farmer Orsenouphis son of Petheus of Kerkesoucha, for sowing in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/9). It lists the plots of land, with their areas in arouras, for which the seed was issued.
Seed loans were repaid after the harvest with a surcharge. The abbreviations for the kleruchy number, "Philod" and the Kamelian estate 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 κη κληρουχίας Ὀρσενοῦφις Πεθέως Κερκεσούχων προσόδου ἀρουρῶν γ η λβ ξδ Καρανίδος Φιλοδ ἀρουρῶν γ 𐅵 ὁμοίως Καμηλιανῆς ἀρούρης 𐅵 η
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