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A receipt addressed to the village grain officials of Karanis by the farmer Horos son of Sarabous, acknowledging an advance of seed grain for the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159) to sow royal land. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the mid-2nd century AD.
The 22nd year of Antoninus corresponds to AD 158/159. The reading of the figures and the supplied word for cleruchic land are uncertain; seed loans were repaid with interest after the harvest.
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 λδ κληρουχίας Ὧρος Σαραβοῦτος Καρανίδος βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν κγ δ ξδ
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