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Receipt for seed-grain advanced by the sitologoi of Karanis TM 42915Arsinoite nome(Mid) IInd century A.D.

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A receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis in which the farmer Herakleides son of Petheus acknowledges receiving a seed-grain advance for year 22 of Antoninus Pius to sow 1 3/4 arouras of land on the Senecian estate. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the mid-2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

To the sitologoi of Karanis: I have received, having declared by written undertaking, seed-grain for year 22 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, 53 (artabas?), of the cleruchy (?); Herakleides son of Petheus, (land) of Karanis, Senecian estate, 1 1/2 1/4 arouras. I, Herakleides, have received.

The figure 53 and the abbreviation klē(rouchias) are uncertain in sense; the number may belong to the cleruchy designation rather than a quantity. Such seed loans were repaid after harvest with a surcharge.

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.

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Grain receipt

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Kar.Goodsp. 53 (MS 1057) · (Mid) IInd century A.D. · Arsinoite nome

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…

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p.kar.goodsp.53

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · (Mid) IInd century A.D. · Arsinoite nome

σιτολόγοις Καρανίδος ἔσχον προσφωνήσας χειρογραφίᾳ σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου νγ κληρουχίας Ἡρακλείδης Πεθέως Καρανίδος Σενεκιανῆς ἀρούρης α 𐅵 δ Ἡρακλείδης ἔσχον.