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A seed-grain receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, recording that Heras of Karanis received an advance of seed from year 22 of Antoninus Pius for land in a kleruchy. The land concerned measures 3 1/4 1/16 arouras and is linked to an estate or holder named Seneca.
The figure 67 (ξζ) may be a running number or a quantity; its meaning and the name of the kleruchy are uncertain. Such seed advances were repaid after the 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.
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 σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ξζ κληρουχίας Αμηνι[…] Ἡρᾶς Καρανίδος Σένεκα ἀρουρῶν γ δ ιϛ
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