Receipt (certificate) for work on the embankments
Certificate for work on the embankments performed by a Saturnilus
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9936
Certificate for dike work by Satorneilos of Karanis TM 9936Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIIIrd century A.D. (233 or 264[?] A.D.)
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A certificate from Karanis recording that Satorneilos completed one naubion of dike work, involving rushes and earth, on 18 Epeiph of year 12. It is signed by the official Libelaris.
In English machine translation
Year 12, Epeiph 18.
Satorneilos of Karanis has delivered one naubion of rushes and earth (?), total 1 naubion.
I, Libelaris, have signed.
A naubion was a unit of volume of earth moved in dike and canal maintenance; such certificates recorded compulsory labor. The reading 'earth' expands an abbreviation (chō(matos)) and its exact sense here 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). 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.3.1038
ἔτους ιβ Ἐπεὶφ ιη Σατορνεῖλος Καρανίδος παρέδωκε ναύβιον θρύων καὶ χώματος ἕν, γίνεται ναύβιον α. Λιβελᾶρις σεσημείωμαι.