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Census return of the priest Panephremmis son of Anchophis TM 10108Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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A copy of a household census return submitted to the village scribe Pnepheros by Panephremmis, a 21-year-old priest of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum. He registers himself, his nephews, his sister-wife Thases, his mother and another female relative, and declares the family's shares of property, for the census of the 9th year of Antoninus Pius.

In English machine translation

[recto] Copy. To Pnepheros, village scribe of Soknopaiou Nesos, from Panephremmis son of Anchophis the elder, son of Panephremmis, his mother being Stotoetis daughter of Horos, priest of the 3rd tribe, from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos. I register myself and my household for the house-by-house census of the past 9th year. I live in a house belonging to my mother, my father having died. I am the aforementioned Panephremmis, aged 21, with a scar by the right eye; and my nephews Panephremmis son of Anchophis the younger, son of Panephremmis, his mother being Thases daughter of Stotoetis, aged 8, with a distinguishing mark on the right eye, and another, Stotoetis, of the same mother, aged 1; and my wife, who is my sister by the same father and the same mother, Thases, aged 17, without distinguishing marks; and the mother of Panephremmis, Stotoetis daughter of Horos son of Paous, aged 51, without distinguishing marks; and […] Segathis daughter of Stotoetis the elder, son of Stotoetis, her mother being Thases daughter of Satabous, aged […], without distinguishing marks. We own the share falling to us, a half part of the paternal […] and a third part of house plots. Therefore I submit this return. Year 10 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Epeiph 30. [verso] 65

Marriage between full siblings, as here, is well attested in Roman Egyptian census returns. The kinship of the nephews is unusual, since their mother bears the same name as the declarant's wife.

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

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