bgu.13.2260
ἔτους πέμπτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς· εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν ἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ ε ἔτους Παῦνι α ε ἐν τῇ Δρυμειτίδι διώρυγι ΣοκνοπαίουΝήσου …[…]… Πανος τοῦ […] […]……ν σεσημείωμαι […]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9669
Certificate of five days' dike work at the Drymeitis canal TM 9669Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)30. Mai 142
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A certificate recording that a man, perhaps the son of Panos, completed his compulsory five days of work on the dikes and canals at the Drymeitis canal of Soknopaiou Nesos. The work was done on Pauni 1-5 of year 5 of Antoninus Pius (AD 142), in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
Year 5 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius. Worked [for the dike works] of the same year 5, Pauni 1 to 5, [at] the Drymeitis canal of Soknopaiou [Nesos]
[…] son of (?) Panos, grandson of (?) […]
[…] I have signed (?) […]
Such certificates (penthemeros) attested the annual five days of compulsory labour on the irrigation dikes owed by men in Roman Egypt. The worker's name is largely lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Penthemeros-Certificate). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.