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A certificate confirming that Eutychos son of Kapiton completed his compulsory five days of work on the embankments, Pauni 17 to 21, in the hill district of Tebtynis. It is dated to the 20th year of Antoninus Pius (AD 157) and signed by an official named Markos.
Such certificates recorded the five days of compulsory labour on dykes and canals owed annually by Egyptian villagers. The mother's name is abbreviated in the text as 'Sy'.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Certificate for Work on the Embankments). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
In the present certificate, three scribes have writen: the first official who drew up a number of forms valid for the whole year, a second, who added the exact date, the place and the workman's name, and finally the katasporeus who signed the document. The document has been folde…
ἔτους εἰκοστοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς, εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν τοῦ αὐτοῦ κ ἔτους Παῦνι ιζ ἕως κα ἐν τῇ ὀρεινῇ Τεπτύνεως Εὔτυχος Καπίτωνος τοῦ Καλλικράτου μητρὸς Συ Μάρκος σεσημείωμαι
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