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A certificate recording that Pnepheros son of Petheus did five days of compulsory work on the embankments (Thoth 12 to 16) to cover the dike obligation of the first year of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. It was issued at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome in the second regnal year.
Such certificates record the five days of annual corvée labour on dikes and canals owed by villagers; the meaning of the location phrase 'en orinēi' (perhaps a desert-edge canal or district) 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 Acknowledgement of Embankment Service). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους β Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Λουκίου Αὐρηλίου Οὐήρου Σεβαστοῦ. εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν τοῦ διεληλυθότος α ἔτους Θὼθ ιβ ἕως ιϛ ἐν ὀρινῇ Πατσώντεως Καρανίδος Πνεφερῶς Πεθέως τοῦ Πνεφερῶτος μητρὸς Ταπεθέως
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