Certificate for work on the embankments
Either the certificate is in the same hand throughout, or the second hand begins at l. 6.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11197
Certificate of embankment work by Paramon son of Melas TM 11197Tebtynis (?)A.D. 164
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A certificate stating that Paramon son of Melas performed his compulsory labour on the dykes and embankments in the month of Pachon, year 4 of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Elagabalus). It comes from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 4 of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus. Paramon son of Melas has worked for the embankment tax of the 4th year, in Pachon, at the canal (?) of T[…]ptu[…].
One record dates the text to AD 164 (Marcus Aurelius), but the titulature with Pius Felix fits Elagabalus, hence AD 221. The place name in line 6 is only partly legible, and the word read as 'canal' (ὀριαθ) is uncertain.
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.
p.fouad.1.62
ἔτους δ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνείνου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστοῦ, εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν δ ἔτους Παχὼν ἐν ὀριαθ Τ…πτυ… Παράμμων Μέλανος.