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Φιλάμων καὶ μέτοχοι χωματεπιμεληταὶ Κεραμείων Οὐσορουήρει Φατρήτρους καὶ Φατρῆτι υἱῶι τοῖς β. ἀναβεβλήκατε ἐπὶ χώματος Πατσώντεως ναύβια δ 𐅵. ἔτους ϛ Οὐεσπασιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Φαρμοῦθι κ.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 24376
Certificate of dyke work for Ousorouéris and his son Phatrês TM 24376Theben15. Apr. 74
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An ostracon receipt certifying that a father and son, Ousorouéris and Phatrês, completed their compulsory earthwork on the dyke of Patsontis, moving 4 1/2 naubia of earth. It is issued by Philamon and his fellow dyke overseers of the Kerameia district at Thebes in AD 74.
In English machine translation
Philamon and associates, overseers of the dykes of Kerameia, to Ousorouéris son of Phatrêtris and Phatrês his son, the 2 of them.
You have shifted on the dyke of Patsontis 4 1/2 naubia.
Year 6 of Vespasian the lord, Pharmouthi 20.
A naubion was a unit of earth volume used to measure compulsory dyke and canal labour. The abbreviated place names (Kerameia, Patsontis) are expanded by the editor.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Certificat de corvée digue). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.