Fragmentary temple inventory from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, listing cult objects such as shrines, statues, bronze figures, lampstands and silver ornaments in the temple of Soknopaios and associated shrines, including temples of Isis Nephremmis and the Dioskouroi. It refers to crocodile burials and to payments owed, and dates by the reign of Antoninus Pius.
In English machine translation
[1]
[…] … […]
[…] … […]
[…] of Harpokrates […]
[…] 2 bronze figures […]
[…] from the […]
[…] of each in the temple […]
[…] in the […] year 5 of the Deified Aelius Antoninus
[…] other […] of the […] 1 bronze Eros
[…] ring, double keys (?)
[…] bronze, on a bronze base fixed to a stone base
[…] small bronze, silver ornaments
[…] in number 26, 2 stones, one
[…] 2 silver wreaths having leaves
[…] by the strategos […]
[…] and the two little crescents of 11 ounces, 16 (drachmas) 2 obols
[2]
[…] were registered by the strategos, wooden […]
[…] 7, and in the temple of the Dioskouroi […]
outside the enclosure wall of the same temple […]
the burials of crocodiles in chests […]
[…] wooden […], bronze lampstands […]
wooden […] in which […] gilded […]
[…] having provided nothing, and around the […] temple […]
[…] in which 7 stone statues, and in the so-called Island of the Women
a temple in which a shrine of Isis Nephremmis, a gilded wooden shrine,
sealed, having a pair of wooden oars (?), and another shrine of the god Harpokrates,
wooden, gilded, in which a wooden Harpokrates […]
fixed, 4 bronze libation bowls, another […]
1 bronze incense burner, fixed, Dikaiosyne and a breast, both
bronze, 3 bronze tongs, and in the metropolis in the quarter of Phremei
the so-called Soknopaion, in which a gilded wooden shrine, and on the Island
a temple of Isis Nephremmis in which 3 stone statues, a bronze
lampstand, 2 pyrrinai (?), 2 bronze trumpets […]
[…] are liable to us each year in money, which is apart from
those from year 22, which is also year 1, of the Deified Hadrian, no longer paid and placed at the end of this roll of this account in a separate section […]
[…] of Soknopaiou Nesos […]
[…] … […]
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Antoninus Pius is called 'Deified', so the document postdates his death in AD 161. Much of column 2 is restored from parallel temple inventories.
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.