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A seed-grain receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis, in which the farmer Horos son of Harokroes acknowledges receiving seed for 5 1/2 arouras of public land for the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius. Such advances were repaid with interest after the harvest.
The figure 44 before the abbreviated klerouchy is obscure; it may designate a numbered allotment area. The amount of seed itself is not stated, only the area of land, at roughly one artaba per aroura.
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 μδ κληρουχίας Ὧρος Ἁροκρωοῦς Καρανίδος δημοσίας ἀρουρῶν ε 𐅵
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