A census return submitted in AD 189 by Isidora of Tebtynis, acting with a guardian, to the nome and village officials. She declares the houses she inherited from her parents and registers herself and her slaves, several of whom are listed as runaways; the laographoi acknowledge receipt.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To Heron, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Themistos and Polemon divisions, and to Dionysammon, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, Polemon division, and to Panesneus, village scribe of Tebtynis, and to Didymos and Dios, laographoi of the same village,
from Isidora, daughter of Orseus the elder, son of Orseus, her mother being Esas daughter of Paeus, from the village of Tebtynis, with her guardian Pakebkis son of Aunes, son of Ornophris. There belong to me in the same village of Tebtynis house-plots inherited from my father and my mother: from my father, two houses, in which there are vaulted rooms and a courtyard and yards and other appurtenances and entrance and exit, and to the north of these another house and yard and other appurtenances and entrance and exit; from my mother, in another place, two vaulted rooms with the rooms above them and a courtyard and yard and vacant plots, in which there is a small house and entrance and exit. In these I register myself for the house-by-house census of the past 28th year of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, in the aforesaid village. And I am Isidora, aged 6[…], and my slaves: Philoumene, aged 45, and her offspring Dioskorous, aged 8, and Athenarion, aged 4; and another slave Elephantine, offspring of Demetria, aged 20, and her offspring Eudaimonis, aged 5, and Isarous, aged 1; and another slave Helene, who is a runaway, aged 68, and Ammonarion, aged 42, and Herakleia, aged 38, likewise runaways. Therefore I submit this. Year 29 of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mesore 29.
Didymos and Dios, laographoi, through me, Didymos: we have received a copy of this pending examination.
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The return belongs to the census of year 28 of Commodus (AD 187/8), filed the following year. Laographoi were village officials responsible for the poll-tax register; Isidora's age is partly lost (in her sixties).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Steuersubjektsdeklaration aus Tebtynis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.