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A receipt certifying that a man, son of Ptollas and Eudaimonis, completed his five-day compulsory labour on the dikes at the navigable canal of Theadelphia. It is dated year 21 of Antoninus Pius (AD 158) and signed by the official Dionysios.
Such penthemeros receipts record the five days of compulsory annual labour on dikes and canals owed by villagers. The worker's own name is lost; only his father's, grandfather's and mother's names survive.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Penthemeros-Quittung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους κα Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς. εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν ἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ κα ἔτους Παῦνι κη ἕως Ἐπὶφ β ἐν τῇ πλωτῇ Θεαδελφείας ὁ δεῖνα Πτολλᾶ τοῦ Πτολλᾶ μητρὸς Εὐδαιμονίδος. Διονύσιος σεσημείωμαι.
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