Report 331 AD
Report of work on dikes presented by Horos to the strategos; it records work done by absentee landowners and residents that was reported in five-day periods
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Report of a dike-overseer on dike work at Kerkeura TM 22280Oxyrhynchites331 CE
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A report from Aurelius Horos, dike-overseer of the village of Kerkeura, to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, accounting by five-day periods for earth-work (naubia) done on a dike in the month of Pharmouthi. It lists contributions by city-dwelling landowners, including a man of perfectissimus rank, and by villagers for village land.
In English machine translation
In the consulship of Iunius Bassus and Flavius Ablabius, the most illustrious prefects.
To Aurelius Ptolemaios, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from Aurelius Horos son of Apollonios […], dike-overseer of the village of Kerkeura […] pagus.
Account of the five-day periods of the naubia worked through me […] in this present month of Pharmouthi on the dike indicated below. On the dike on the north Api…ap, naubia […], which were also thrown up by those registered below, as follows: by the citizens: Timotheos son of Iulianus, naubia […]; Achilleus, vir perfectissimus, naubia […]; and by those from the same village on behalf of village property, naubia […]. […] Total of the aforesaid naubia, which were also worked, as follows: from day 1 to day 5, 14 naubia.
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A naubion was a unit of earth-moving work (a volume of earth dug or banked) owed for dike maintenance. The 'citizens' are residents of the city of Oxyrhynchus owning land near the village.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of Work on Dikes). 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.col.10.289
ὑπατείας Ἰουνίου Βάσσου καὶ Φλαουίου Ἀβλαβίου τῶν λαμπροτάτων ἐπάρχων· Αὐρηλίῳ Πτολεμαίῳ στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ὥρου Ἀπολλωνίου […] χωματεπιστάτου κώμης Κερκεύρων[…] πάγου. λόγος πενθημέρων τῶν διʼ ἐμοῦ ἀπεργασθέντων ναυβίων […] ἐπὶ τοῦδε τοῦ μηνὸς Φαρμοῦθι εἰς τὸ ἑξῆ…