Receipt (Certificate) for work performed for the penthemeral dyke corvȨe
Receipt (Certificate) for work performed on the embankments by Protas, son of Orseus
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12323
Penthemeros certificate for dyke work by Protas son of Orseus TM 12323Perhaps Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJuly 26 - 30, 126 A.D.
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A certificate confirming that Protas son of Orseus performed his compulsory five days of work on the dykes at a canal of Tebtynis. It is dated to Mesore 26 of Hadrian's tenth year (AD 126) and signed by the official Didymos.
In English machine translation
Year ten of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus. Worked for five days on the embankment works of the same tenth year, Mesore 26, at the canal of Hermoithes(?) of Tebtynis,
Protas son of Orseus grandson of Soterichos, his mother being Herakleia.
I, Didymos, have signed.
Every adult male owed five days (penthemeros) of annual labour on dykes and canals; such certificates proved it was done. One record gives the date as 26-30 July, the span of the five days.
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.15.692
ἔτους δεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ. εἰργάσατο ἐφʼ ἡμέρας πέντε ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν ἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ δεκάτου ἔτους Μεσορὴ κϛ ἐν τῇ Ἑρμοίθου διώρυγι Τεβτύνεως Πρωτᾶς Ὀρσέως τοῦ Σωτηρίχου μητρὸς Ἡρακλείας. Δίδυμος σεσημείωμαι.