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A short receipt addressed to the village grain officials (sitologoi) of Karanis acknowledging an advance of seed grain for year 22 of the emperor Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159). It lists the farmer Pausas son of Ptollas, grandson of Psenarpsenesis, with plots of cleruchic and royal land and a small plot of the Kamelian land at Karanis.
Such seed advances were repaid after the harvest with a surcharge. The numeral 84 at the end of line 2 is unexplained and may be a serial or account number, and "Kamelian" probably names an estate or land category.
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 πδ κληρουχίας Παυσᾶτις Πτολλᾶτος Ψεναρψενήσεως βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν δ Καρανίδος Καμηλιανῆς ἀρούρης 𐅵 δ
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