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A seed-grain receipt addressed to the sitologoi (village grain officials) of Karanis, in which the farmer Petheus son of Ischyras acknowledges receiving seed for year 22 of Antoninus Pius. The seed is for revenue land at Ptolemais and land of the Kamelian estate at Psenarpsenesis in the Arsinoite nome.
The text records land areas rather than the amount of seed. Such seed advances were repaid after harvest with a surcharge. The final fractions are hard to read and are rendered as 1/16 1/32, which is uncertain.
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 οα κληρουχίας Πεθεὺς Ἰσχυρᾶ Πτολεμαίδος προσόδου ἀρουρῶν β 𐅵 Ψεναρψενήσεως Καμηλιανῆς ἀρουρῶν ϛ ιϛ λβ
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