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Receipt addressed to the village grain collectors (sitologoi) of Karanis by Mysthes son of Naarautos of Kerkesoucha, acknowledging an advance of seed grain for the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius. The seed was for sowing 3 1/4 1/8 arouras of state revenue land in the Arsinoite nome.
Such seed loans were repaid after harvest with a surcharge. 'Prosodos' land here refers to a category of state-owned revenue land.
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 […] Μύσθης Νααραῦτος Κερκεσούχων προσόδου ἀρουρῶν γ δ η
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