Receipt (Certificate) for work performed for the penthemeral dyke corvȨe
Receipt (Certificate) for work performed on the embankments for the penthemeral dyke corvȨe
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12258
Certificate of five days' dyke work by Sokras son of Sarapion TM 12258Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt162 A.D.
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A certificate recording that Sokras son of Sarapion performed his five days of compulsory labour on the dykes and embankments near Karanis, from Mesore 24 to 28 of year 2 of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (AD 162).
In English machine translation
Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus.
Worked on the embankments for the same year 2, Mesore 24 to 28, in the Mountain dyke (?) of Patsontis (?) of Karanis, Sokras son of Sarapion, grandson of Remlis (?), Ptol.
Every adult man owed five days a year (the penthemeros) of work on the irrigation embankments; such certificates proved the duty was done. The place name and the grandfather's name are heavily abbreviated and their expansion is uncertain, and the final 'Ptol.' may be part of a name or a scribe's mark.
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 Work on the Embankments). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.mich.6.419
ἔτους β Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Λουκίου Αὐρηλίου Οὐήρου Σεβαστοῦ εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωμάτων τοῦ αὐτοῦ β ἔτους Μεσορὴ κδ_κη ἐν ὀρινῇ Πατσώντεως Καρανίδος Σωκρα Σαραπίωνος τοῦ Ῥεμλ Πτολ.