Penthemeros certificate for dyke work at Soknopaiou Nesos TM 10579Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)6. Juni 153

A penthemeros certificate confirming that a man, whose name is largely lost but whose mother was Tapontos, performed his five days of compulsory labour on the dykes and canals at a canal of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum. It dates to Pauni 8 to 12 of year 16 of Antoninus Pius (AD 153).

In English machine translation

Penthemeros certificates attest the annual five-day corvée on irrigation works owed by villagers. The abbreviated canal name is read as the Drymeitis canal; the worker's and the signing official's names 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 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.