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Certificate of five days' dike work at the new six-sluice structure TM 11624Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)13. Juni 51

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A certificate of compulsory dike work stating that Panephremmis son of Papeis worked five days, starting on Pauni 15, at the 'new six-door' installation, discharging his dike-work obligation for the year. It comes from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum and was issued in AD 51 under Claudius, signed by the official Korax.

In English machine translation

Year eleven of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator: worked at the new six-sluice (?) from the month of Pauni 15, for five days, for the dike tax (?) of the same year, of Soknopaiou Nesos. Panephremmis son of Papeis, grandson of Marasout. I, Korax, have signed.

Such certificates record the five days of annual labour on dikes and canals required of men in Roman Egypt; 'chomatika' here refers to this embankment obligation. The 'hexathyros' (six-door) was apparently a sluice or similar waterworks.

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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 13. Juni 51 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

ἔτους ἑνδεκάτου Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος εἰργάσθαι ἐν τῇ καινῇ ἑξαθύρωι ἀπὸ μηνὸς Παῦνι ιε ἐφʼ ἡμέραις πέντε ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου. Πανεφρέμμις Παπεῖς Μαρασοῦτος Κόραξ σεσημείωμαι