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An account or register of seed-grain advances for year 22 of Antoninus (AD 158/9), listing farmers of Karanis, the land category or estate they farm, and the acreage. Sisois son of Karanos and Horos son of Karanos are named.
The numbers 72 and 83 appear to be entry numbers; the figure 64 after the acreage is of uncertain meaning. Although catalogued as a receipt, the text reads like an extract from a register of seed loans.
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 οβ κληρουχίας Σισόις Καράνου Καρανίδος βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν ιγ 𐅵 ξδ πγ κληρουχίας Ὧρος Καράνου Ψεναρψενήσεως Καμηλιανῆς ἀρουρῶν ιβ Πτολεμαίδος Γερμανικιανῆς[…] ἀρουρῶν β
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