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Certificate of dike work by Orsenouphis son of Herieus TM 11350Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)5. Aug. 148

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A certificate recording that Orsenouphis son of Herieus of Soknopaiou Nesos performed his compulsory five days of dike work, Mesore 8 to 12, at the breach near Ptolemais. It dates from year 11 of Antoninus Pius (AD 148) and was signed by an official.

In English machine translation

Year 11 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius. Worked on the dike works of the same year 11, Mesore 8 to 12, at the breach of Ptolemais on the river, from Soknopaiou Nesos: Orsenouphis son of Herieus, grandson (?) of Pameito[…], mother Tesenouphis. D[…], sower (?): I have signed.

Such certificates attested the annual five-day corvée on the irrigation dikes (chomatika erga) owed by Egyptian villagers. The signing official's name and title (katasporeus, 'sower') are largely restored.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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p.grenf.2.53a

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 5. Aug. 148 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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