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A brief note on seed-grain advanced in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159) to Heras son of Orsenouphis of Kerkesoucha in the Arsinoite nome. It concerns 13 1/32 arouras of land of the Germanician estate. This kind of seed loan was repaid after the harvest.
The figures 'λ κληρουχ(ίας)' are obscure; the 30 may be a number or reference attached to the cleruchy. The final fraction λβ is read as 1/32 aroura.
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…
σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου λ κληρουχίας Ἡρᾶς Ὀρσενούφιος Κερκεσούχων Γερμανικιανῆς οὐσίας ἀρουρῶν ιγ λβ
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