Receipt (Certificate) for Work on the Embankments
Certificate for work on the embankments performed by a Ptolemaios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42703
Certificate for embankment work by Ptolemaios son of Siomeus TM 42703probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIIIrd century A.D. (June 7)
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A short ostracon certificate recording that Ptolemaios son of Siomeus performed his work, probably compulsory labour on the dykes and embankments, on Pauni 13 (7 June). It was signed off by an official in Greek and in Latin, probably at Karanis in the 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
Pauni 13.
Ptolemaios son of Siomeus delivered (?).
I have signed.
Noted.
The verb 'paredoken' (handed over/delivered) is abbreviated. The text itself does not name the embankment work; that identification comes from the catalogue description. The final Latin 'notavit' sits alongside the Greek 'sesemeiomai', both meaning a signature or note of verification.
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.2.825
Παῦνι ιγ Πτολεμαῖος Σιομέου παρέδωκεν. σεσημείωμαι. notavit.