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A brief record of a seed-grain advance in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (about AD 158/159), listing two farmers, Anchophis son of Mysthes and Horos son of Petheus, and their 10 3/4 arouras of royal land. It comes from the Arsinoite nome and belongs to the system of state seed loans to farmers.
The catalogue dates the text only to the mid 2nd century AD; year 22 of Antoninus Pius corresponds to AD 158/159. The abbreviations "kle(rouchias)" and "Pat(sonteos)" are uncertain; the latter may be a village name or a grandfather's name.
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 Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ν κληρουχίας Ἀγχῶφις Μύσθου καὶ Ὧρος Πεθέως Πατσώντεως βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν ι 𐅵 δ
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