Certificate of five days' compulsory dike work TM 9666Arsinoites

A penthemeros certificate from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum) confirming that a man performed his compulsory five days of labour on the dikes and canals in year 2 of Hadrian (AD 117/118). The work was done on an embankment and sluice of a canal, and the certificate is signed by the supervising officials.

In English machine translation

Every adult male in Roman Egypt owed five days' labour (penthemeros) yearly on the irrigation works; these certificates prove it was done. The worker's name in line 4 is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Penthemeros-Certificate). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.