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Certificate of dyke corvée work at the Argaitis canal of Bakchias TM 11918Bakchias (Arsinoites)29. Mai 147

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A certificate recording that Psenatymis son of Paonnophris completed his five days of compulsory labour on the dykes at the Argaitis canal of Bakchias in the Fayum. It is dated in the tenth year of Antoninus Pius (AD 147) and signed by the official Celer.

In English machine translation

Year ten of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius. Has worked on the embankment works of the same tenth year, from Pachon 30 to Pauni 4, at the canal of Argaitis of Bakchias: Psenatymis son of Paonnophris son of Nepheros, mother Taorsennouphis. I, Celer, have signed.

Such certificates attested the five days of annual compulsory work on embankments and canals (chomatika erga) owed by adult men in Roman Egypt. The date given corresponds to Pachon 30, the first day of work.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Certificate of Performance of Corvée). 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 · 29. Mai 147 · Bakchias (Arsinoites)

ἔτους δεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς. εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν ἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ δεκάτου ἔτους, Παχὼν λ ἕως Παῦνι δ ἐν τῆι Ἀργαίτιδος διώρυγι Βακχιάδος Ψενάτυμις Παοννώφρεως τοῦ Νεφερῶτος μητρὸς Ταορσεννούφιος Κέλερ σεσημείωμαι