Receipt (Certificate) for Work on the Embankments
Probably a certificate for work on the embankments performed by Ptolemaios and Horaus(?)
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42040
Certificate for embankment work by Ptolemaios and Horaus TM 42040probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptSeptember 23, 212 A.D.[?]
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A short ostracon certificate recording that Ptolemaios son of Peteron and Horaus son of Pasion completed three naubia of earthwork, probably on the dikes and embankments. It dates to Year 21, Thoth 26, probably 23 September 212 AD, and probably comes from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 21, Thoth 26.
Ptolemaios son of Peteron and Horaus son of Pasion […]
have delivered
3 naubia.
A naubion was a unit of earth moved, used to measure compulsory work on dikes and canals. The regnal year is not tied to a named emperor, so the AD date is uncertain.
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.1.277
κα ἔτους Θὼθ κϛ Πτολεμαῖος Πετερῶνος καὶ Ὁραῦς Πασίωνος … παρέδοσαν ναύβια τρία .