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A receipt addressed to the grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis in which the farmer Syros son of Orsenouphis acknowledges receiving seed grain for sowing, in the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159). It distinguishes allotments for cleruchic land and for 4 arouras of royal land.
The catalogue gives only the mid-2nd century AD; year 22 of Antoninus corresponds to AD 158/159. The figure 60 after the date is of uncertain reference, possibly arouras or artabas of cleruchic land, and the line naming Syros is partly illegible.
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 ξ κληρουχίας Σῦρος Ὀρσενούφεως … βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν δ
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