Receipt (Certificate) for Work on the Embankments
Probably a certificate for work on the embankments performed by Ision
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42038
Certificate for embankment work by Ision son of Ptolemaios TM 42038probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 23, 204 or 233 A.D.
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A short receipt certifying that Ision son of Ptolemaios performed one naubion of compulsory work on the embankments (dikes). It is dated Year 12, Pauni 29 (23 June AD 204 or 233), probably from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
Year 12, Pauni 29.
Ision son of Ptolemaios, αυσαπ (?), has delivered of embankment work 1 naubion, total 1,
for Pauni twenty-ninth.
I have signed.
A naubion was a unit of earth-moving, roughly a cubic measure of soil, used to reckon dike labour. The letters αυσαπ after the name are unexplained and are left untranslated.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt (Certificate) for 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.
o.mich.1.276
ἔτους ιβ Παοῖνι κθ Ἰσίων Πτολεμαίου αυσαπ παρέδωκεν χώματος ναύβιον ἕν, γίνεται α εἰς Παοῖνι ἐνάτῃ καὶ εἰκοστῇ σεσημείωμαι.