Penthemeros certificate for dike work at the old six-gate sluice of Narmouthis TM 9667Narmuthis (Arsinoites)11. Juni 138

A five-day work certificate (penthemeros) recording that a man, whose name is largely lost, performed his compulsory labour on the dikes at the old six-gate sluice of Narmouthis on Pauni 13-17 of year 1 of Antoninus Pius. It dates to June 138 AD in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

Penthemeros certificates attest the five days of compulsory annual labour on irrigation dikes owed by inhabitants of Roman Egypt. The 'hexathyros' was a sluice or water structure with six gates.

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.