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A short receipt for an advance of seed-corn issued for sowing in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159), recorded for Heron son of Hekysis through Ptolemaios son of Mysthes. It lists 7 1/2 artabas of wheat for 11 1/4 arouras of royal land at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
The letters 'μα' at the end of line 2 are unclear and may be an abbreviated month and day. The catalogue gives only 'mid 2nd century AD', but regnal year 22 of Antoninus points to AD 158/159.
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 μα κληρουχίας Ἥρων Ἑκύσιος διὰ Πτολεμαίου Μύσθου Καρανίδος βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν ια δ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ζ 𐅵
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