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A short record of a seed-grain advance for year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/9), naming the farmer Paion son of Sambas, grandson of Phaesis, and 9 arouras of royal land. Such advances of seed were issued by the village grain officials in the Arsinoite nome and repaid after the harvest.
The number 69 is probably an entry number in a series of such records; the abbreviations read as kleruchy and the village name Patsontis are uncertain expansions. The catalogue dates it only to the mid-2nd century, but year 22 of Antoninus points to AD 158/159.
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 Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ξθ κληρουχίας Παιῶν Σαμβᾶ τοῦ Φαήσεως Πατσώντεως βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν θ
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