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An account submitted by Aurelius Silbanos and his colleague, overseers of dykes for the southern district of the Oxyrhynchite nome, reporting embankment work done in each village up to 26 Pharmouthi. For each village it gives the quota of earthwork, the amount completed, and the amount still outstanding, measured in naubia.
The naubion was a unit of volume for earth moved in dyke and canal work, roughly a cubic measure assigned as compulsory labour. In the third line the figures 220/160/60 imply 220 for the damaged first number.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Work on 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.
παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Σιλβανοῦ καὶ τοῦ σὺν αὐτῷ χωματεπιμελητοῦ τῆς νοτινῆς μερίδος. λόγος ἀπεργασίας τοῦ κατὰ κώμην εἰς κϛ Φαρμοῦθι. ἔστι δέ· Σερύφεως ἀπὸ μὲν Γφβ ἀπεργασίας ναύβια Βξη, λοιπὰ Αυλβ. Τ…[…]λει ἀπὸ σκ ρξ, λοιπὰ ξ. Τ[…]… ἀπὸσμ ρν, λοιπὰ ϙ. […]ἀπὸτδ ρν, λοιπὰ ρνδ. Τήεως […] ν…
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