Declaration of Property
Return addressed by Petheus son of Dionysios to the keeper of the public library Thrakidas, declaring his properties in and near Karanis
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Property declaration of Petheus son of Dionysios to the record office TM 12033Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 23, 53 A.D.
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A property declaration submitted to Thrakidas, gymnasiarch and keeper of the property records of the Arsinoite nome, by Petheus son of Dionysios of Karanis, a farmer on the Camelian imperial estate. He declares a house with courtyard, oil press and dovecote, a slave woman, an olive grove near Psenarpsenesis and a catoecic allotment. It was filed on 23 June AD 53.
In English machine translation
To Thrakidas, gymnasiarch, keeper of the records of the record office in the Arsinoite nome,
from Petheus son of Dionysios son of Ptolemaios, of those from the village of Karanis of the Herakleides division, a cultivator of estate land and exempt (?) worker of the Camelian estate.
I own in the village a house and courtyard and an oil press and a dovecote, in which I live, and a slave woman Thereus, and near Psenarpsenesis of the same division 3 1/2 1/4 1/32 arouras of olive grove and 3 arouras of catoecic allotment. Therefore I submit the declaration.
Filed in year 13 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Pauni 29. I have signed.
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The 'library' here is the property record office (bibliotheke enkteseon), not a library of books. 'Apolysimos' describes a worker on an estate exempt from certain public liturgies.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration of Property). 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.9.539
Θρακίδᾳ γυμνασιάρχῳ βιβλιοφύλακι τῆς ἐν τῶι Ἀρσινοείτηι βιβλιοθήκης παρὰ Πεθέως τοῦ Διονυσίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος οὐσιακοῦ γεωργοῦ καὶ ἀπολυσίμου Καμηλιανῆς οὐσίας. ὑπάρχει μοι ἐν τῇ κώμῃ οἰκία καὶ αὐλὴ καὶ ἐλαιουργεῖον καὶ περιστερεὼν ἐν…