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A short record of seed-grain advanced for year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159) to the farmer Hatres son of Anchophis, listing the plots he cultivated in three villages of the Arsinoite nome with their areas. Such seed loans were repaid after the harvest with interest.
Royal land and revenue land (prosodos) were categories of state-owned land leased to cultivators. The numbered kleruchy (42) refers to an old allotment district used to identify 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 μβ κληρουχίας Ἁτρῆς Ἀγχώφεως Πατσώντεως βασιλικῆς γῆς ἀρουρῶν ε Κερκεσούχων προσόδου ἀρουρῶν γ Ψεναρψενήσεως βασιλικῆς γῆς ἀρούρης δ η
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