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A seed-grain receipt addressed to the granary officials (sitologoi) of Karanis, in which the farmer Orsenouphis son of Phaesis acknowledges receiving seed for sowing 14 1/4 arouras of the Lourian estate in the 42nd kleruchy, in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159). It comes from the Arsinoite nome.
The figures at the end of the last line (δ ξδ) are hard to interpret; they may give the fraction 1/4 and a further quantity of 64. Such seed advances 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 μβ κληρουχίας Ὀρσενοῦφις Φαήσεως Ψεναρψενήσεως Λουριανῆς οὐσίας ἀρουρῶν ιδ δ ξδ
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