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Certificate of five-day dike work by Stotoetis of Soknopaiou Nesos TM 11634Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)1. Aug. 49

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A certificate of compulsory labour on the dikes and canals, recording that Stotoetis son of Panephremmis of Soknopaiou Nesos completed his five-day work obligation. It is signed by the official Dionysios and dated to 1 August AD 49, in the reign of Claudius.

In English machine translation

[B] Year 9 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, up to the month Kaisareios 8, worked the five-day period at (?) [...]: Stotoetis son of Panephremmis, (mother) Tan…e, from Soknopaiou Nesos. I, Dionysios, have signed.

The penthemeros was the obligatory five days of annual labour on the irrigation works. The abbreviation 'en kler' is unresolved and may refer to the location of the work.

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.

p.lond.2.165b

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 1. Aug. 49 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

[B] ἔτους ἐνάτου Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος ἕως μηνὸς Καισαρείου η ἐν κληρ ἠργάσατο τὴν πενθήμερον. Στοτοῆτις Πανεφρόμμιος Ταν…η ἀπὸ Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου Διονύσιος σεσημείωμαι.