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Census return of Anchorimphis, a labourer of Theadelphia TM 11768Theadelphia (Arsinoites)104 - 105

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A census return (house-by-house registration) submitted by the labourer Anchorimphis son of Anchorimphis to the acting village scribes and the laographoi of Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome. He registers himself, his wife Heraklous and their six-year-old son for the census of Trajan's 7th year (AD 103/104), living in a house formerly belonging to Claudia Apollinaria. The end of the document is lost.

In English machine translation

To Akousilaos and associates, who are administering the office of village scribe, and to Phaseis and Heras and Heron and Orsenouphis and Sisois and Sokonopis, laographoi of the village of Theadelphia, from Anchorimphis son of Anchorimphis son of Areios, his mother being Tamarkis daughter of Panesneus, a labourer, of those from the village. I register for the house-by-house census of the past seventh year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, in the same village, in the house formerly of Claudia Apollinaria(?) in the village: I am the aforementioned Anchorimphis, about 43 years old, with a scar on the left eyebrow, and my wife Heraklous daughter of Peneeus, about 25 years old, and our son from both of us, Anchorimphis, 6 years old. Therefore I submit the return […] […]

Laographoi were local officials who kept the poll-tax register of the village population. The census year was Trajan's 7th year (103/104), with returns filed the following year.'

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 104 - 105 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

Ἀκουσιλάῳ καὶ μετόχοις διεξάγουσι τὰ κατὰ τὴν κωμογραμματείαν καὶ Φάσειτι καὶ Ἡρᾷ καὶ Ἥρωνι καὶ Ὀρσενοῦφι καὶ Σισόιτι καὶ Σοκονῶπι λαογράφοις κώμης Θεαδελφείας παρὰ Ἀγχορίμφεως τοῦ Ἀγχορίμφεως τοῦ Ἀρείου μητρὸς Ταμάρκιος τῆς Πανεσνέως ἐργάτου τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς κώμης. ἀπογράφομαι εἰς τὴ…