Receipt (Certificate) for work on the embankments
Certificate for work on the embankments performed by a Ptole(--)
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42687
Certificate for work on the embankments by Ptole(--) son of Abykis TM 42687probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 16, 188 A.D.
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A short ostracon certificate recording that a man named Ptole(--), son of Abykis, performed his required work on the embankments. It is dated 16 June AD 188 and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
Year 28, Pauni 22. Ptole(--), son of Abykis, has delivered (his work).
I have signed.
The name Ptole(--) is abbreviated and could stand for Ptolemaios or a similar name. The embankment work was compulsory annual labour on the dikes, and these certificates proved it had been done.
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.2.809
κη ἔτους Παῦνι κβ Πτολε Ἀβύκεως παρέδωκεν. σεσημείωμαι