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A brief record of seed-grain advanced to a farmer for sowing land at Kerkesoucha in the Arsinoite nome (Fayum), dated to year 22 of the emperor Antoninus Pius. It notes the land area concerned, about 1 5/8 arouras.
The text is highly abbreviated; the figure 75 and the restored word 'kleruchy' are uncertain, and the final figures may express the land area (1 1/2 1/8 arouras) rather than grain. Year 22 of Antoninus Pius fits the catalogue's mid-2nd century date.
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 τοῦ κυρίου οε κληρουχίας Πτολεμαὶς Σώτου Κερκεσούχων προσόδων ἀρούρης α 𐅵 η
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