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A receipt issued to the village grain collectors (sitologoi) of Karanis by the farmer Sarapion son of Perigenes for an advance of seed grain for sowing in year 22 of Antoninus Pius. It mentions land of the Senecan estate measuring 3 3/4 arouras.
Seed advances like this were repaid with interest after the harvest. The Senecan estate (Seneciane) was a former private estate whose land was leased out to farmers; 'kleruchy' is an uncertain reading of an abbreviation.
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…
σιτολόγοιςΚαρανίδος ἔσχον προσφωνήσας χειρογραφίᾳ σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου λε κληρουχίας Σαραπίων Περιγένους Καρανίδος … … ὁμοίως Σενεκιανῆς ἀρουρῶν γ 𐅵 δ
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