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Receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis by the farmer Pnepheros son of Charidemos, acknowledging an advance of seed grain for the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius. The seed was for sowing land assigned to him, including 3 arouras of revenue land at Kerkesoucha.
The figure 35 and the abbreviations in lines 2-3 are terse and their exact construal (quantity of grain vs. category of land) is uncertain. 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 λε κληρουχίας Πνεφερῶς Χαριδήμου τοῦ Ἡρακ προσόδου Κερκεσούχων ἀρουρῶν γ
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