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A certificate recording that Stotoetis son of Stotoetis performed his compulsory five days of labour on the dikes and canals of the village of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, credited to the 23rd year of Antoninus Pius. It was issued in the month of Hathyr of year 24, in late AD 160.
The five-day period (penthemeros) was the annual compulsory labour owed by villagers on the irrigation embankments. The site name 'Epagathiane' is restored; the signer's name Dioskoros is abbreviated.
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.
ἔτους κδ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶν τοῦ διεληλυθότος κγ ἔτους Ἁθὺρ […]τὴν κελευσθεῖσαν πενθήμερον ἐν τῇ ἘπαγαθιανῇΣοκνοπαίου Νήσου Στοτοῆτις Στοτοήτιος το…[…] Διοσκ σεσημείωμαι
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