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A receipt addressed to the sitologoi (village grain officials) of Karanis, in which the farmer Petheus son of Petesouchos acknowledges receiving an advance of seed grain in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/9). The amounts are linked to plots of cleruchic and royal land he was to sow.
The text is highly abbreviated and the figures (83, 1 1/2 1/4) are uncertain in their reference; the word order in the edition is irregular, so the translation rearranges the name of the recipient. Seed advances like this were repaid after harvest with a surcharge.
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 σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου πγ κληρουχίας Πεθεὺς Πετεσούχου Ψεναρψενήσεως βασιλικῆς ἀρούρης α 𐅵 δ Καρανίδος βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν δ
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