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Receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis by the farmer Apion son of Ptolemaios, acknowledging an advance of seed-grain for sowing in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/9). The seed was for land in the cleruchy of Philodamos.
The numerals 'ξη' (68) and 'γ λβ' are uncertain in meaning; 'γ λβ' may be 3 1/32 arouras, or numbers recorded for quantities. Seed advances like this were repaid after the harvest with an added charge.
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 ξη κληρουχίας Ἀπίων Πτολεμαίου Φιλοδαμο ἀρουρῶν γ λβ
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