Receipt (Certificate) for Work on the Embankments
Probably a certificate for work on the embankments performed by Ischyras
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42041
Certificate of embankment work by Ischyras son of Ptolemaios TM 42041probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 13, 213 A.D.[?]
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A short ostracon certificate recording that Ischyras son of Ptolemaios performed his service on Pauni 19 of year 21, probably compulsory work on the dike embankments. It probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum and dates to about AD 213.
In English machine translation
Year 21, Pauni 19. Ischyras son of Ptolemaios delivered (?).
I have signed for Pauni nineteenth.
The verb paredōke ("delivered, handed over") is unusual in such certificates. The connection with embankment work is a probable interpretation, not stated in the text.
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.1.278
κα ἔτους Παῦνι ιθ Ἰσχυρᾶς Πτολεμαίου παρέδωκε. σεσημείωμαι εἰς Παῦνι ἐνάτῃ καὶ δεκάτῃ.