p.aberd.36a
ἔτους τρίτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς. εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶνἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ γ ἔτους Παῦνι α ἕως ε ἐν τῷ καλουμένῳ χώματι Δρυμου … Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου … Π… Ἑριέως μητρὸς Θασῆτος …
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Certificate of embankment work at Soknopaiou Nesos TM 9988Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)30. Mai 140
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A certificate recording that a man of Soknopaiou Nesos, son of Herieus and Thases, did his five days of compulsory labour on the dykes and embankments. The work was done on Pauni 1 to 5 in the third year of Antoninus Pius, AD 140, in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
Year three of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius. Worked for the embankment works of the same year 3, Pauni 1 to 5, at the embankment called Drymos (?) […] of Soknopaiou Nesos, […] P[…] son of Herieus, his mother being Thases.
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Such certificates confirmed completion of the five-day annual corvée on the dykes required of men in Roman Egypt. The worker's own name and the full name of the embankment are damaged.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Certificate of 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.