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A certificate recording that a man, son of Kronion and Thenapynchis, completed his compulsory five days of labour on the dikes and canals at the mountain canal of Tebtynis in July 117. Such receipts proved that villagers had fulfilled their annual corvée obligation.
The regnal formula mixes Trajan's titles; year 20 is Trajan's last year, and he died in August 117, so the scribe's "Trajan Hadrian" is odd. "Embankment works" (chomatika erga) refers to the obligatory annual corvée on dikes and canals.
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.
ἔτους εἰκοστοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Δακικοῦ Παρθικοῦ. εἴργασται ἐφʼ ἡμέρας πέντε ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν ἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ κ ἔτους Ἐπεὶφ ιζ κα ἐν ὀρεινῇ διώρυγι Τεβτύνεως […] Κρονίωνος τοῦ χεῶτος μητρὸς Θεναπύγχεως. […]… σεσημείωμαι.
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