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Receipt addressed to the village grain collectors of Karanis by the farmer Ptolemaios son of Chairas, acknowledging an advance of seed grain for sowing his land in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159). It lists plots near Psenarpsenesis and Kerkesoucha with their areas in arouras.
Seed loans were repaid after harvest with interest. The figure 68 before the abbreviation for cleruchy is obscure and may be a plot or holding number; the Kamelian land was probably an estate named after a former owner, and 'revenue land' (prosodou) was a category of state land.
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 Πτολεμαῖος Χαιρᾶ τοῦ Χαιρᾶ Ψεναρψενήσεως Καμηλιανῆς ἀρουρῶν ε 𐅵 ιϛ λβ ξδ Κερκεσούχων προσόδου ἀρούρης α δ ιϛ
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