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A short receipt from the Arsinoite nome, issued by the farmer Aphrodisios son of Ptolemaios for seed grain advanced to him in year 22 of Antoninus Pius to sow 3 arouras of revenue land at Kerkesoucha. Heron wrote it for him because he was illiterate.
The text begins abruptly, so the opening formula of the receipt is probably on a lost part or understood. The number 38 probably designates a numbered cleruchic holding, and "revenue land" (prosodou ge) was a category of state land.
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 Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου λη κληρουχίας Ἀφροδίσιος Πτολεμαίου Κερκεσούχων προσόδων ἀρουρῶν γ. Ἥρων ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ μὴ εἰδότος γράμματα.
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