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Receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis by the farmer Kopaneus son of Polydion, acknowledging an advance of seed-grain for sowing in year 22 of Antoninus Pius. The land is specified as cleruchic land near Patsontis and revenue land near Kerkesoucha.
The figure 75 (οε) is ambiguous; it may be an amount of grain or part of the land designation. Seed advances were repaid with interest after the harvest.
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 οε κληρουχίας Κοπανεῦς Πολυδίωνος Πατσώντεως ἀρουρῶν δ 𐅵 Κερκεσούχων προσόδου ἀρουρῶν β
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