Attestation sur la penthemeros
Penthemeros certificate. Attestation of a five-day dike work performed by a certain Ptol(emy?)in Karanis
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11290
Certificate of five-day dike work at the Argaitis canal, Karanis TM 11290Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Province of EgyptJune 4, 140 A.D.
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A penthemeros certificate confirming that Ptolemaios, son of Herakl[…], did his compulsory five days of work on the dikes from Pauni 6 to 10 of year 3 of Antoninus Pius. The work was done at the Argaitis canal of Karanis in the Fayum, and the certificate is signed by an official named Marion.
In English machine translation
Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius. Ptolemaios son of Herakl[…], grandson of Petheus, his mother being Thermouthis, has worked on the dike works for the same year 3, Pauni 6 to 10, at the canal of Argaitis of Karanis.
I, Marion, have signed.
The penthemeros was the five days of compulsory labour on dikes and canals owed each year by adult men in Roman Egypt. The father's name is damaged and survives only as Herakl[…].
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Attestation sur la πενθήμερος). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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ἔτους τρίτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς. εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν ἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ γ ἔτους. Παῦνι ϛ ἕως ι ἐν διώρυγι Ἀργαιτιδος Καρανίδος. Πτολεμαῖος Ἡρακλ[…] τοῦ Πεθέως μητρὸς Θερμουθ. Μαρίων σεσημείωμαι.