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A seed-grain receipt addressed to the village grain collectors of Karanis, in which a farmer acknowledges receiving an advance of seed for sowing in the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius. It belongs to a series of such receipts from the Arsinoite nome in the mid 2nd century AD.
The 22nd year of Antoninus Pius corresponds to AD 158/159. 'Royal land' (basilike ge) was crown land leased to state farmers, who received seed advances repayable after harvest with a surcharge.
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 … κληρουχίας Δ…δ[…]ς Πεθέως Πατσώντεως βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν […] η
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