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A seed-grain receipt addressed to the grain collectors of Karanis, in which Phasis, whose father is not recorded and whose mother was Thatreis, acknowledges an advance of seed for 5 1/2 arouras in year 22 of Antoninus Pius. Such advances were repaid after the harvest with interest.
Apator (fatherless) marks a person of unknown or unrecorded father. The figure 91 with supplied 'kleruchy' is obscure, perhaps a plot or kleruchy 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…
σιτολόγοις Καρανίδος ἔσχον προσφωνήσας χειρογραφίᾳ σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ϙα κληρουχίας Φᾶσις ἀπάτωρ μητρὸς Θατρείους Πατσώντεως ἀρουρῶν ε 𐅵
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