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A seed-loan receipt addressed to the grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis, in which the farmer Ptolemaios son of Petheus acknowledges receiving seed grain for sowing royal land in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159). Such advances were repaid after the harvest with interest.
The figures in the last line (area in arouras and quantity of seed) are written as abbreviated fractions and their division is uncertain; the number 77 after 'the lord' is obscure and may refer to a numbered allotment. A cheirographia is a sworn written declaration.
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 οζ κληρουχίας Πτολεμαῖος Πεθέως Καρανίδος βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν δ 𐅵 δ η
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