Register of work performed for the penthemeral dyke corvȨe
Ledger in which are recorded the names of persons obligated to work on the embankments as well as the date and place of the work performed by them, with references by column to a daybook
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Register of five-day dyke corvée work on canals TM 28805(probably) Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptLatter half of the IInd century A.D.
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A register from Karanis in the second half of the 2nd century AD listing men liable for the compulsory five-day work on the dykes and canals. For each man it gives his name, father, grandfather and mother, the dates of his five days of service and the canal where he worked, sometimes with a reference to a sheet of a daybook. A few entries note priests, elderly or exempt men.
In English machine translation
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[...] son of Petheus, mother Tamaron
[...] of the mountain district, Ptolemais Hormou
[...] son of Petheus, mother Tapetheus
Pyrrhos son of Didymos son of Pyrrhos, mother Thasos
Didymos, his son, mother Soeris
Pasoxis son of Petheus son of Pasoxis, mother Ammonous, priest, aged 64
old man (?), exempt (?), paid (?)
Petheus son of Pasoxis son of Petheus, mother Heras, priest
Pauni 28 to Epeiph 2, Epagathian canal
[...] brother, same mother
old man (?), exempt (?), paid (?)
Petheus son of Petheus son of Pasoxis, mother Ammonous
old man (?), exempt (?), paid (?)
[margin] [...] village scribe
Sambas son of Sokmenis son of Sambas, mother Tkollainis
Pauni 28 to Epeiph 2, Epagathian canal
Ptolemaios son of Esouris son of Heras, mother Thaesis
Epeiph 1 to 5, Epagathian canal
Aunes son of Apynchis son of Auneis, mother Tapetheus
Pauni 17 to 21, Epagathian canal
Ptolemaios, brother, same mother
sheet 20, Hathyr 14 to 18, canal of Patsontis
Ptollas son of Sabinus son of Ptollas, mother Vettia
Epeiph 1 to 5, Epagathian canal
Harpokras, brother, same mother
sheet 13, Mesore 11 to 15, Epagathian canal
[margin] absent (?) [...]
Syros son of Orsenouphis son of Papontos, mother He[...]
[margin] absent (?)
Petheus son of Heras son of Petheus, mother Ptolema [...]
Deion, son, mother Tapetheus
Epeiph 1 to [...] canal
The recurring abbreviations ηλ εξ τελ and απ are uncertain; they may mark old age, exemption, payment, and absence. 'Kollema' refers to a numbered sheet of the daybook where the work was originally recorded.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ledger Recording Work on the Embankments). 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.6.381
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