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A short receipt or record of a seed-grain advance for sowing, issued in year 22 of Antoninus Pius to the farmer Ptollas son of Komon of Psenarpsenesis for 12 1/8 arouras of cleruchic land. It comes from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum).
The records give only a mid-2nd-century date, but year 22 of Antoninus Pius corresponds to AD 158/159. 'Kamelianes' probably refers to a named land category or former estate, and its exact sense is uncertain.
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 πθ κληρουχίας Πτολλᾶς Κόμωνος Ψεναρψενήσεως Καμηλιανῆς ἀρουρῶν ιβ η
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