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A record of seed grain advanced in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159) to the farmer Mamertinus son of Petesouchos for royal and estate land he farmed near Karanis, Psenarpsenesis and Kerkesoucha in the Arsinoite nome. Such seed loans were repaid with interest after the harvest.
Kamelian and Severian land were formerly private estates (ousiai) that had become imperial property; the fractions of arouras follow the edition's numerals and some readings are uncertain. The number 78 before 'kleruchy' probably designates a numbered allotment unit.
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 Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου οη κληρουχίας Μαμερτεῖνος Πετεσούχου Καρανίδος βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν γ ξδ Ψεναρψενήσεως βασιλικῆς γῆς ἀρούρης 𐅵 ιϛ λβ καμηλιανῆς ἀρούρης α ιϛ Κερκεσούχων Σεουηριανῆς ἀρούρης α 𐅵 δ λβ
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