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Census declaration of Peteuris and his brothers from Bakchias TM 11983Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptDecember 1, 104 A.D.

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A census declaration submitted by Peteuris, a public farmer of Bakchias in the Fayum, to the strategos, royal scribe, village scribe and census officials, registering himself, his two brothers and a sister-in-law living in a quarter-share of a house. It was filed for the census of Trajan's 7th year and endorsed by the officials on 1 December AD 104.

In English machine translation

To Lokretius Cerialis, strategos, and Pasion, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, and to Areios, village scribe, and to Apollonios and Patron, laographoi of the village of Bakchias, from Peteuris son of Horos son of Horos, his mother being Herieus daughter of Menches, of those from the aforementioned village. There belongs to me and my brothers in the village a fourth part of a house and courtyard, in which we reside, and I register myself and my family for the house-by-house census of the past 7th year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus. I am Peteuris, the aforementioned, public farmer, 44 years old, without distinguishing marks; and my brother Horos, 34 years old, without distinguishing marks; and another brother Horion, 21 years old, without distinguishing marks; and his wife Thenatymis daughter of Chariton, her mother being Tapetosiris, 25 years old; and in the same village a share of house plots. We, Apollonios, laographos of the village of Bakchias, and Patron, laographos, through Epimachos, scribe, have filed this, year 8 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, Choiak 5. I, Areios, village scribe, have signed, year eight.

The laographoi were local officials responsible for the poll-tax registers. 'Without distinguishing marks' (asemos) refers to the absence of scars or other identifying marks recorded in official descriptions.

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.

Census Declaration

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 105 · December 1, 104 A.D. · Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

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

p.mich.3.177

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 1. Dez. 104 · Bakchias (Arsinoites)

Λοκρητίωι Κεριάλι στρατηγῷ καὶ Πασίωνι βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοείτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος καὶ Ἀρείῳ κωμογραμματεῖ καὶ Ἀπολλωνίῳ καὶ Πάτρωνι λαογράφοις κώμης Βακχιάδος. παρὰ Πετεύριος τοῦ Ὥρου τοῦ Ὥρου μητρὸς Ἑριέως τῆς Μεγχείους τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς προκιμένης κώμης. ὑπάρχει ἐμοί τε καὶ το…