Fragment of a temple inventory from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, 2nd century AD, listing cult objects such as gilded wooden shrines, bronze figures, incense-burners and a lamp-stand. It mentions a sealed shrine of Soknopaios in the metropolis (Arsinoe) and a temple of Isis Nephremmis, followed by references to scrutinized priests.
In English machine translation
[…] a wooden […] gilded […]
[…] another of bronze, and [small figures, and incense-burners] […]
[…] [of bronze, and Dikaiosyne (Justice)], and a breast, both [of bronze, and small tongs with] […]
[…] [us, of bronze] […] [; and in the] metropolis in the quarter [of Phremei, the so-called Soknopaion,] […] [in which there is a wooden shrine] gilded, sealed, [in which no one serves as priest] […]
[…] [except us, and] […] Nesos […] temple of Isis Ne[phremmis, in which there are] [stone statues] […] [and a] bronze lamp-stand […]
[…] of the same […]
[…] of those who have been scrutinized […]
[…] twenty
[…] [Harpokr]ation, whose mother is Tesenouphis […]
[…]
[…]
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Much of the text is restored from parallel temple inventories of Soknopaiou Nesos. 'Scrutinized' (epikekrimenoi) refers to priests officially examined and approved.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Temple Inventory). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.