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A brief record of a seed-corn advance issued to the farmer Didymos son of Sarapion of Kerkesoucha, in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/9), for land on the Maecenatian estate and royal land at Patsontis in the Arsinoite nome. Such advances were made to enable farmers to sow their land and were repaid after the harvest.
The catalogue dates the text only to the mid 2nd century AD, but year 22 of Antoninus corresponds to AD 158/9. Maecenatian land was an imperial estate originally belonging to Maecenas; the figure 62 and the abbreviation for allotment (kleruchia) are of uncertain meaning.
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 ξβ κληρουχίας Δίδυμος Σαραπίωνος Κερκεσούχων προχρείαν Μαικηναιτιανῆς ἀρούρης α 𐅵 δ η λβ ξδ Πατσώντεως βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν δ
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