Receipt (Certificate) for work performed for the penthemeral dyke corvȨe
Receipt (Certificate) for work performed on the embankments by Panephremmis the elder, son of Papeis
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12320
Penthemeros certificate for dyke work by Panephremmis son of Papeis TM 12320Perhaps Soknopaiou Nesos, Arsinoite Nome, province of Egypt90-91 A.D.
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A certificate recording that Panephremmis the elder, son of Papeis, of Soknopaiou Nesos worked five days on the new canal embankment as his compulsory dyke labour for the tenth year of Domitian. It is signed by three officials, including the controller Hierakion.
In English machine translation
Year 10 of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus. Worked on the new embankment of the canal for 5 days, for the dyke-work of the same tenth year, of Soknopaiou Nesos:
Panephremmis the elder, son of Papeis son of Papeis, his mother being Segathis.
I, Asklepiades, have signed.
I, Hephaistion, have signed for Panephremmis the elder, son of Papeis.
I, Hierakion, controller, have signed for the five-day period of the dyke works.
A penthemeros was the five days of compulsory annual labour on dykes and canals owed by adult men in Roman Egypt. The provenance is given as only probable in one record.
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.15.690
ἔτους δεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Δομιτιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ. εἰργάσατο ἐν χώματι καινῷ διώρυγος ἐφʼ ἡμέρας ε ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν τοῦ αὐτοῦ δεκάτου ἔτους Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου Πανεφρέμμις πρεσβύτερος Παπεῖτος τοῦ Παπεῖτος μητρὸς Σεγάθιος. Ἄσκληπιάδης σεσημείωμαι. Ἡφαιστίων σεσημείωμα…