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Certificate of five-day dike work at Soknopaiou Nesos TM 11802Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)17. Sept. 162

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A certificate recording that Stotoetis son of Stotoetis completed his compulsory five days of dike work, owed for year 2, on the embankment at Drymos Person near Soknopaiou Nesos. It is dated in year 3 of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AD 162.

In English machine translation

Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus. Worked for the dike-tax (?) of the past year 2, from Thoth 16 to 20, the prescribed five-day period, on the dike of Drymos Person of Soknopaiou Nesos: Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, grandson of Hieropaous (?), (mother?) Stotoetis.

The penthemeros was the obligatory five days of annual labour on dikes and canals required of adult men in Roman Egypt. The final name and the expansion of the grandfather's name are uncertain abbreviations.

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 · 17. Sept. 162 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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