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A receipt addressed to the village grain collectors (sitologoi) of Karanis, in which Heras son of Petheus acknowledges an advance of seed grain for year 22 of Antoninus Pius, for royal land and land of the Senecan estate. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the mid-2nd century AD.
Seed grain was lent to farmers for sowing and repaid after harvest with a surcharge. The numbers 73 and 83 at line starts are probably register or entry numbers, and the end of the text is illegible.
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 ογ κληρουχίας Ἡρᾶς Πεθέως Καρανίδος βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν γ 𐅵 ὁμοίως Καρανίδος Σενεκιανῆς ἀρουρῶν β πγ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας δ …
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