Receipt (Certificate) for work on the embankments
Certificate for work on the embankments performed by a Ptole(--)
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42708
Certificate for three days of embankment work by Ptole(--), son of Sempronius TM 42708probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIIIrd century A.D. (June 9, 10 & 13)
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Ostracon certificate recording that a man named Ptole(--), son of Sempronius, worked on the embankments for three days in the month of Pauni (the 15th, 16th and 19th). It dates to the 3rd century AD and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
1st (year?). Ptole(--), son of Sempronius.
Pauni 15, 16, nineteenth, total three, 3.
The opening alpha probably gives regnal year 1. Such dike-work certificates record compulsory labour on the irrigation embankments; the name Ptole(--) is abbreviated, probably for Ptolemaios.
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.2.830
α Πτολε Σεμπρωνίου Παῦνι ιε ιϛ ἐννέα καὶ δεκάτῃ, γίνονται τρεῖς γ.