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A seed-grain receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, recording an advance of seed for year 22 of Antoninus Pius. The farmer Petekas, son of Psenarpsenesis and Tamysthas, acknowledges seed for land in the cleruchy of Louria measuring about 6 1/4 1/32 arouras.
The figure 43 after the ruler's title is unexplained; it may be a quantity of seed or a running number, and the order of the parents' names in the Greek is unusual. The land figure may also be read as 6 1/4 and 1/32 arouras.
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 σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου μγ κληρουχίας Πετεκᾶς μητρὸς Ταμύσθας Ψεναρψενήσεως Λουρίας ἀρουρῶν ϛ δ λβ
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