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A brief record of seed grain for the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius, listing land held by the brothers Akotas son of Hatreus and Ptollas in the 49th kleruchy, with plots at Psenarpsenesis (royal land), Louria and Kerkesoucha (revenue land). It comes from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum), mid-2nd century AD.
Seed grain was advanced by the state to farmers of public land and repaid after harvest; this text records the land areas on which the advance was based. A kleruchy was a block of land originally allotted to military settlers.
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 μθ κληρουχίας Ἀκωτᾶς Ἁτρείους καὶ Πτολλᾶς ἀδελφὸς Ψεναρψενήσεως βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν ϛ Λουριας ἀρουρῶν ιγ δ η ιϛ λβ Κερκεσούχων προσόδου ἀρουρῶν γ
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