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A seed-grain receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis, in which the farmer Ptolemaios son of Petheus acknowledges receiving a loan of seed for year 22 of Antoninus Pius, for sowing cleruchic land and revenue land. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the mid-2nd century AD.
Year 22 of Antoninus Pius corresponds to AD 158/159. The figures (30 artabas; land measured in arouras with fractions) are abbreviated, and the reading of the land categories and amounts is somewhat uncertain.
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 λ κληρουχίας Πτολεμαῖος Πεθέως Πατσώντεως ἀρουρῶν η η Πτολεμαίδος προσόδου ἀρούρης α 𐅵 η ιϛ
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