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A brief seed-grain record from the Arsinoite nome, dated to year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/9), noting an advance of seed for 5 arouras of allotment land connected with Pnepheros son of Akousilaos. Such advances were issued to farmers for sowing and repaid after the harvest.
The meaning of the numeral 47 (μζ) is uncertain: it may be a serial number or a quantity. "Klerouchia" refers to an allotment of land originally assigned to a settler, and Louria may be the name of a former holder or a place.
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 Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου μζ κληρουχίας Πνεφερῶς Ἀκουσιλάου Ψεναρψενήσεως Λουρίας ἀρουρῶν ε
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