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A short receipt for seed grain advanced to the farmer Onnophris son of Aunis for sowing 4 arouras of royal land at Karanis in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159). It belongs to a group of seed-loan receipts from the Arsinoite nome, which were repaid with interest after the harvest.
The third line is garbled in the edition ('δος' is unclear), and the sense of 'Patsontis' and the number 61 is uncertain; 'royal land' (basilike ge) was state-owned land worked by public tenant farmers.
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 ἔτους κβ Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Καρανίδος Πατσώντεως δος βασιλικῆς κληρουχίας ξα Ὀννῶφρις Αὐνίους ἀρουρῶν δ Ὀννῶφρις ἔγραψα.
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