Receipt (Certificate) for work performed for the penthemeral dyke corvȨe
Receipt (Certificate) for work performed on the embankments by Ptollis, son of Pamenes
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12317
Penthemeros certificate for dyke work by Aunes son of Haryotes TM 12317Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt57/58 A.D.
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A penthemeros certificate confirming that Aunes son of Haryotes of Theadelphia performed his compulsory five days of dyke work in Year 4 of Nero (AD 57/58). It is countersigned by two embankment clerks acting for the royal scribe and the strategos.
In English machine translation
Year 4 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator.
Aunes son of Haryotes, of Theadelphia, worked the five-day period on the embankments for the same year in the mountain canal (?) of the Polemon division.
I, Souchion, checking clerk of embankments for the royal scribe, have signed.
I, Philotas, checking clerk of embankments for the strategos, have signed.
The penthemeros was the five-day compulsory labour on dykes and canals owed annually by Egyptian villagers. The APIS description names a different worker (Ptollis son of Pamenes), apparently describing another certificate; the text itself names Aunes son of Haryotes.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Penthemeros Certificate). 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.12.655
ἔτους τετάρτου Νέρωνος Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος. ἠργάσατο τὴν πενθήμερον ὑπὲρ χωμάτων τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους ἐν τῇ ὀρεινῇ Πολέμωνος Θεαδελφίας Αὐνῆς Ἁρυώτου. Σουχίων ἀντιγραφεὺς χωμάτων βασιλικοῦ γραμματέως σεσημείωμαι. Φιλώτας ἀντιγραφεὺς χωμάτων στρατηγοῦ σεσ…