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Certificate of dike-work for Kronion son of Kronion TM 11580Tebtynis (Arsinoites)15. Juni 123

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Certificate that Kronion son of Kronion worked his compulsory five days of labour on the dikes and canals at the canal of Tebtynis, from 11 to 15 June AD 123. It is signed by the official Didymos.

In English machine translation

Year 7 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus. Has worked for 5 days on the dike works of the same year 7, Pauni 17 to 21, at the mountain (?) canal of Tebtynis: Kronion son of Kronion, grandson of Cheos, his mother being Thenapynchis. I, Didymos, have signed.

Such certificates proved that a man had done the annual five days of obligatory work on the irrigation embankments (chomatika erga). The canal's epithet 'mountain' is a restoration.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Certificato di corvée alle dighe). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 15. Juni 123 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

ἔτους ἑβδόμου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ. εἴργασται ἐφʼ ἡμέρας πέντε ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν ἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ ζ ἔτους Παῦνι ιζ κα ἐν ὀρεινῇ διώρυγι Τεβτύνεως Κρονίων Κρονίωνος τοῦ Χεῶτος μητρὸςΘεναπύγχεως Δίδυμοςσεσημείωμαι.