One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31069

Fragment mentioning a public dike and managers TM 31069Memphis (?)1. Hälfte III

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A small fragment of a Greek document mentioning a public dike and managers (pronoetai) connected with a man named Dioskoros. It probably dates to the first half of the 3rd century AD and may come from Memphis.

In English machine translation

[…] … […] […] … of the public dike […] […] … […] […] … […] […] …pollon… […] … […] […] of Dioskoros, managers (?) of the […] […] …bion […]

A pronoetes was a manager or agent, often of an estate. The public dike (choma) suggests a context of irrigation works or dike labour.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 1. Hälfte III · Memphis (?)

[…]τητης κ…μμ[…] […]…[…]… χώματος δημοσίου[…] […]…[…]λ…[…] […]συνε…[…]……[…] […]πολλων…[…]απον[…] […]Διοσκόρου προνοητὰ τῶν …[…] […]…………βιωνος […]