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Certificate of dike work by Sasopis son of Kronion TM 11587Tebtynis (Arsinoites)10. Juni 136

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A certificate recording that Sasopis son of Kronion carried out his compulsory labour on the dikes and embankments for five days, Pauni 12 to 16, in Hadrian's 20th year at Tebtynis. It is signed by an official named Ptol(...).

In English machine translation

Year twenty of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus. Worked on the embankment works of the same 20th year, Pauni 12 to 16, at the new six-sluice (?) canal of Tebtynis: Sasopis son of Kronion, son of Kronion, mother Taorsenouphis. I, Ptol(emaios ?), have signed.

Such certificates proved that a man had done his annual five days of obligatory work on the irrigation embankments. "Hexathyros" (six-door) is the name of a canal or sluice structure near Tebtynis; the signer's name is abbreviated as Ptol.

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. Juni 136 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

ἔτους εἰκοστοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ. εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν ἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ κ ἔτους Παῦνι ιβ ιϛ ἐν τῇ καινῇ ἑξαθύρῳ Τεβτύνεως Σασῶπις Κρονίωνος τοῦ Κρονίωνος μητρὸς Ταορσενούφεως. Πτολ σεσημείωμαι.