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A short receipt from the Karanis grain archive in which a farmer, Petesouchos, acknowledges to the village grain officials (sitologoi) that he has received seed grain for sowing 1 aroura of cleruchic land in year 22 of Antoninus Pius. Such seed advances were repaid after the harvest with interest.
The figure 87 (πζ) before 'cleruchy' probably refers to a numbered cleruchic holding or the amount of seed in fractions; its exact sense is uncertain. The phrase rendered 'declared by sworn written statement' (prosphonesas cheirographia) is a technical expression for a formal 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…
σιτολόγοιςΚαρανίδος ἔσχον προσφωνήσας χειρογραφίᾳ σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου πζ κληρουχίας Πετεσοῦχος … Πατσώντεως ἀρούρης α
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