Census Declaration
Declaration of persons belonging to the same household and resident in the same domicile in Bacchias, drawn up in accordance with the requirements of the fourteen-year house-by-house census
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Census declaration of Peteuris son of Horos from Bakchias TM 11982Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMay 10, 91 A.D.
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A census declaration submitted by Peteuris son of Horos, a public farmer of Bakchias in the Fayum, to the village officials for the census of Domitian's 9th year. He registers himself, his wife Tapeine and his two younger brothers living in a house of which he and his brother each own a quarter share. It was written for him by the village scribe Aphrodisios, as he was illiterate, on 10 May AD 91.
In English machine translation
To Horos son of Haryotes, [laographos] of Bakchias, and to Apynchis son of Onnophris and the other elders,
from Peteuris son of Horos, of those from the village of Bakchias. I own in the village a 1/4 share of a house, in which I reside, and I register myself and my household for the census of the past 9th year of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus.
I am Peteuris son of Horos son of Horos, my mother being Herieus daughter of Menches, public farmer, about 30 years old, without distinguishing marks;
and my wife Tapeine daughter of Apkois, 25 years old;
and my brothers of the same father and same mother, Horos, about 20 years old,
and another, Horion, about 7 years old.
My brother also owns the … 1/4 share of the aforementioned house and courtyard in which we reside.
I, Peteuris, the aforementioned, have submitted (this) and I swear by Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus that the foregoing is true and that nothing is falsified. Aphrodisios, scribe of the village, wrote ⟨for him⟩ since he does not know letters.
Year 10 of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, Pachon 15.
The declaration belongs to the 14-year Roman house-by-house census, here that of Domitian's 9th year (AD 89/90). A laographos was a village official responsible for registering the population for the poll tax.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Census Declaration). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.mich.3.176
Ὥρωι Ἁρυώτου λαογράφῳ Βακχιάδος καὶ Ἀπύνχει Ὀννώφρεως καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις πρεσβυτέροις παρὰ Πετεύρεως τοῦ Ὥρου τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Βακχιάδος. ὑπάρχει μοι ἐν τῇ κώμῃ τέταρτον μέρος οἰκίας ἐν ᾧ καταγείνομαι καὶ ἀπογράφομαι ἐμαυτόν τε καὶ τοὺς ἐμοὺς εἰς τὴν τοῦ διεληλυθότος θ ἔτους Αὐτοκράτορ…