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Certificate of five days' dyke corvée by Pakebkis son of Kronion TM 11584Tebtynis (Arsinoites)10. Okt. 131

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A certificate recording that Pakebkis, son of Kronion and Taorsenouphis, performed five days of compulsory labour on the dykes near Drymos, Kerkesis and Tebtynis in October AD 131. It is signed by the official Deios.

In English machine translation

Year sixteen of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus. Worked for five days on the embankment works of the same year 16, Phaophi 8 to 12, at the dykes of Drymos, Kerkesis, Tebtynis: Pakebkis son of Kronion son of Kronion, mother Taorsenouphis. I, Deios, have signed.

Such certificates proved that a man had completed his annual five-day obligation of work on the irrigation embankments (chomatika erga). The text is also published as P.Mil.Vogl. III 164.

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 · 10. Okt. 131 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

ἔτους ἑκκαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ. εἴργασται ἐφʼ ἡμέρας πέντε ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν ἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ ιϛ ἔτους Φαῶφι η ιβ ἐν χώμασι, Δρυμοῦ, Κερκήσεως, Τεβτύνεως Πακῆβκις Κρονίωνος τοῦ Κρονίωνος. μητρὸς Ταορσενούφεως Δεῖος σεσημείωμαι.