Receipt (Certificate) for work on the embankments
Certificate for transport of stone (for the embankments) performed by a Ptolemaios
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42704
Certificate for stone-collecting work by Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios TM 42704probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIIIrd century A.D. (June 22)
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A short ostracon certificate recording that Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios performed work collecting or transporting stone, probably for the embankments, starting from the 24th of the month. It is dated Pauni 28 and was probably issued at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome in the 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
Pauni 28. Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios, from the 24th, (for) joint stone-collecting.
I have signed.
The term synlithegia (abbreviated) refers to collective work gathering or carrying stone, here understood as compulsory labour on the dykes. "From the 24th" presumably marks the day the work began.
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.2.826
Παῦνι κη Πτολεμαῖος Πτολεμαίου ἀπὸ κδ συνλιθηγίαν. σεσημείωμαι.