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A receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis, in which a farmer named Onnophris son of Petheus acknowledges receiving a seed-grain advance for sowing 1 aroura of land on the Maecenatian estate. It dates to the reign of Antoninus Pius, in the mid-2nd century AD, from the Arsinoite nome.
The regnal year is restored by the editor; the number 43 and the dash with 'to' in line 3 are of uncertain meaning. The Maecenatian estate (ousia) was imperial land originally belonging to Maecenas.
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 σπερμάτωνκβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου μγ κληρουχίας Ὀννῶφρις — το Πεθέως Μαικηναιτιανῆς Καρανίδος ἀρούρης α
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