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A receipt addressed to the village grain collectors of Karanis, in which the farmer Phanomgeus son of Pnepheros acknowledges receiving seed grain advanced for sowing in year 22 of Antoninus Pius, for 4 arouras of land. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the mid-2nd century AD.
Seed advances like this were repaid with interest after the harvest. The final figure 64 and the abbreviated land designations (Psen..., Lour...) are uncertain in meaning; the numbering 94 probably refers to a cleruchy.
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 κώμης Καρανίδος ἔσχον προσφωνήσας σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ϙδ κληρουχίας Φανομγεὺς Πνερφερῶτος Ψεναρψενήσεως Λουριας ἀρουρῶν δ ξδ
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