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Certificate of compulsory dike work by Sasopis son of Kronion TM 11590Tebtynis (Arsinoites)18. Juni 150

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A certificate recording that Sasopis son of Kronion performed five days of compulsory labour on the dikes near Tebtynis, from Pauni 20 to 24 of the 13th year of Antoninus Pius (AD 150). It is signed by the official Akousilaos.

In English machine translation

Year thirteen of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius. Has worked on the dike works of the same 13th year, Pauni 20 to 24, at the new mountain-edge six-sluice (canal) of Tebtynis: Sasopis son of Kronion, grandson of Kronion, his mother being Taorsenouphis. I, Akousilaos, have signed.

Such certificates proved that a man had done his annual five days of corvée labour on the dikes and canals. The 'six-sluice' (hexathyros) was a named waterworks installation at the desert edge.

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 · 18. Juni 150 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

ἔτους τρεισκαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς. εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν ἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ ιγ ἔτους Παῦνι κ κδ ἐν ὀρεινῇ καινῆι ἑξαθύρῳ Τεβτύνεως Σασῶπις Κρονίωνος τοῦ Κρονίωνος μητρὸς Ταορσενούφεως. Ἀκουσίλαος σεσημείωμαι.