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Penthemeros certificate for dike work at the Epagathian canal TM 10582Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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A penthemeros certificate confirming that Satabous, son of […]on and grandson of Stotoetis, with mother Tabous, did his five days of compulsory work on the dikes and canals, from Pauni 6 to 10, at the Epagathian canal. It comes from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome and dates to the reign of Antoninus Pius.

In English machine translation

Year 2(?) […] of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius. Worked on the embankment works of the same year 2(?) […], Pauni 6 to 10, at the Epagathian canal, for Soknopaiou Nesos, by Satabous son of […]on son of Stotoetis, his mother being Tabous. […]las, I have signed.

A penthemeros certificate attested the five days of compulsory labour on embankments and canals owed each year by adult men in Roman Egypt. The regnal year number is only partly preserved.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

ἔτους β[…] Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς. εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν ἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ β[…] ἔτους Παῦνι ϛ ἕως ι ἐνἘπαγαθιανῇ διώρυγι Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου Σαταβοῦς[…]ωνος τοῦ Στοτοήτιος. μητρὸς Ταβοῦτος […] λας σεσημείωμαι.