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A seed-grain receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis, in which the farmer Phasis son of Petheus acknowledges receiving seed for sowing in year 22 of Antoninus Pius. The seed was for 8 arouras of public land; such advances were repaid after the harvest.
Year 22 of Antoninus Pius corresponds to AD 158/159. The figure 30 and the term 'kleroukhia' (cleruchic land) are hard to construe with the 8 arouras of public land; the sense of this line is 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 Φᾶσις Πεθέως Καρανίδος δημοσίας ἀρουρῶν η
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