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Census declaration of house property and slaves at Philadelphia TM 11607Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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A census declaration from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, addressed to the strategos Ammonios, the royal scribe Harpokration also called Hierax, and the village scribe Horion. The declarant, son of Sabinus, lists house shares, courtyards, vacant plots and slaves belonging to Nemesilla for the census of Commodus' 28th year, filed in his 29th year.

In English machine translation

To Ammonios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, and to Harpokration also called Hierax, royal scribe of the same division, and to Horion, village scribe of Philadelphia, from […]os son of Sabinus, registered in the quarter of Horion [Hierakeion]. I own in the village of Philadelphia […] share of a house and courtyard, and there belongs […] from the grandmother's estate of Memmia in [equal shares] […] Nemesilla and her children […] of Memmia a courtyard […] for herself in the same village a house […] of a courtyard and a half share of a house [and courtyard and] open court and the appurtenances, and [in another place] a vacant plot, likewise also in another [place a vacant] plot, and in another place a house [held in common and undivided], and the slaves of the aforementioned Nemesilla: Isidora, 25 years old, and […], 33 years old, and Thermouthas, [… years old …], which I register for the house-by-house census of the past [28th year of Marcus Aurelius] Commodus Antoninus Caesar [the lord]. I, Horion, village scribe, [have received] the copy. [Year 29 of Marcus Aurelius] Commodus Antoninus [Caesar the lord] […]

The census of year 28 of Commodus corresponds to AD 187/188; the declaration was filed the following regnal year. The village scribe's receipt note acknowledges a copy.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dichiarazione domiciliare per il censimento). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

Ἀμμωνίῳστρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος καὶ Ἁρποκρατίωνι τῷ καὶ Ἱέρακι βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ τῆς αὐτῆς μερίδος καὶ Ὡρίωνι κωμογραμματεῖ Φιλαδελφείας. παρὰ[…]ου Σαβίνου ἀναγραφομένου ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Ὡρίωνος Ἱερακείου.ὑπάρχει μοι ἐν κώμῃ Φιλαδελφείᾳ […]μέρος οἰκίας καὶ αὐλῆς, ὑπάρχε…