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A receipt addressed to the sitologoi (village grain officials) of Karanis acknowledging an advance of seed grain for year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159). Sarapion, son of Apol(…), records the plots of royal land at Psenarpsenesis and of the Kamelian estate to be sown and the 3 1/8 artabas of wheat received.
The abbreviation read as kleruchia and the number 28 are uncertain; the fractions of arouras follow the Egyptian system of unit fractions. Seed advances like this were repaid after 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 κη κληρουχίας Σαραπίων Ἀπολ Ψεναρψενήσεως βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν β η ιϛ ὁμοίως Καμηλιανῆς ἀρουρῶν β 𐅵 ιϛ ξδ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας γ η
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