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Greek text: OGIS_655 ( Cairo CG 9202 )
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos Date: March, 24 B.C. Tags: divine_honours Format: see key to translations It was standard practice in ancient Egypt to worship living rulers as gods, and this inscription, relatively early in the reign of Augustus, unequivocally calls him a god. | 
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On behalf of imperator Caesar, god and son of a god, the building of this perimeter wall was dedicated to the god lord Soknopaios by the rearers of sheep and cattle from Neiloupolis and their wives and children, for a vow. Year 6 of Caesar, Phamenoth 20.
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