Receipt (Certificate) for work on the embankments
Certificate for work on the embankments performed by a Theagenes
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42688
Certificate of dike work by Theagenes son of Horion TM 42688probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 18, 188 A.D.
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An ostracon certificate recording that Theagenes son of Horion performed his required earth-moving work on the dikes, 2 naubia charged on his landholding. It is dated Pauni 24 of year 28 (18 June AD 188), probably at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 28, Pauni 24.
Theagenes son of Horion has delivered 2 naubia on account of arouras.
I have signed.
A naubion was a unit of earth (about a cubic measure) used to reckon compulsory work on embankments and canals. Here the obligation was assessed on land (arouras) rather than on the person.
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.2.810
κη ἔτους Παῦνι κδ Θεαγένης Ὡρίωνος ὑπὲρ ἀρουρῶν ναύβια δύο παρέδωκεν. σεσημείωμαι.