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Embankment work certificate for work done by a substitute at the Epagathian canal TM 11702Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)29. Juni 159

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A certificate recording five days of compulsory work on the embankments (dyke corvée), done at the Epagathian canal by Menches son of Stotoetis as a substitute for Panophremmis son of Apynchis. It is dated to year 22 of Antoninus Pius, Epeiph 1 to 5 (June 159 AD), at Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, and signed by the official Dioskoros.

In English machine translation

[B] Year 22 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius. Worked on the embankments in the same year 22, Epeiph 1 to 5, at the Epagathian canal of Soknopaiou (Nesos): Menches son of Stotoetis, on behalf of Panophremmis son of Apynchis, his mother being Tekiasis. I, Dioskoros, have signed.

Such certificates proved that the annual five days of obligatory dyke labour had been performed; here the work was done by one man on behalf of another. The expansion of the canal name as 'Epagathian' is an editorial resolution of an abbreviation.

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 · 29. Juni 159 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

[B] ἔτους κβ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς εἰργάσατο ὑπὲρ χωμάτων τοῦ αὐτοῦ κβ ἔτους Ἐπὶφ α ε ἐν τῇ Ἐπαγαθιανῇ διώρυγι Σοκνοπαίου Μεγχῆς Στοτοήτιος ὑπὲρ Πανοφρέμμιος Ἀπύγχεως μητρὸς Τεκιάσιος Διόσκορος σεσημείωμαι.