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A short record of seed-grain advanced to Maron son of Limnaios of Karanis in year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/9). It lists the arouras he was to sow on royal land and on two imperial estates, the Maecenatian estate and the Germanician estate at Ptolemais.
The Maecenatian and Germanician estates (ousiai) were large former private estates that passed into imperial ownership. The final figure is read as 2 1/4 1/32 arouras, and the number after the regnal title seems to be an allotment (klerouchia) number.
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 πγ κληρουχίας Μάρων Λιμναίου Καρανίδος βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν γ Μαικηναιτιανῆς οὐσίας ἀρουρῶν η Πτολεμαίδος Γερμανικιανῆς ἀρουρῶν β δ λβ
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