Receipt (Certificate) for work on the embankments
Certificate for work on the embankments performed by a slave named Sarapion
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42689
Certificate for embankment work by the slave Sarapion TM 42689probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJuly-August, 188 A.D.
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An ostracon certificate recording that Sarapion, a slave of Ptolemaios, performed 2 naubia of work on the dikes and embankments. It dates to Mesore of year 28 (July-August AD 188), probably from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 28, Mesore […]
Sarapion, slave of Ptolemaios (?), delivered 2 naubia.
A naubion was a unit of earthwork measuring volume, used to reckon compulsory labour on dikes and canals. The master's name is abbreviated (Ptolem-), so its full form 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.2.811
κη ἔτους Μεσορὴ […] Σαραπίων δοῦλος Πτολεμ παρέδωκε ναύβια δύο .