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A brief record of seed grain issued to a farmer, Ptolemaios the younger son of Petalos, for sowing 2 1/4 arouras of royal land. It dates to year 22 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158/159) and comes from the Arsinoite nome.
Year 22 of Antoninus corresponds to AD 158/159. The figure after the aroura sign, read as 2 1/4, may refer to the land area or to the amount of seed, and the text breaks off before any quantity in artabas.
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 Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου … κληρουχίας Πτολεμαῖος νεώτερος Πετάλου Κ[…] βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν β δ
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