A house-by-house census declaration submitted at Karanis by Sarapion son of Esouris on behalf of Tasoucharion, a citizen of Antinoopolis, and her two children, listing the houses, courtyards and shares of houses they own in the village. It is addressed to the strategos, royal scribe, village scribe and census officials and dated 9 August 189, for the census of year 28 (187/188).
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 the village scribe of the village of Karanis, and to the laographoi of the same village,
from Sarapion son of Esouris, from the village of Karanis. There belong to those whose affairs are managed by me, to Tasoucharion, fatherless, her mother being Sarapias, Antinoite, mother of the persons written below, in the village, a house and courtyard and a third share of another house; and to Gaia Apolinaria and Gemellus Horion, her children, Antinoites, jointly in equal shares, a house and 2 courtyards formerly of Valeria Diodora, and a third share of 2 houses and 2 courtyards, and in another place a half share of a house and courtyard and of another courtyard, and in another place a house and courtyard, and 2 courtyards formerly of Gaius Longinus Apolinarius, veteran, and a house and courtyard formerly of Ptolemais, and in another place a third share of a house and courtyard, which I register for the house-by-house census of the past 28th year. Therefore I submit this.
I, Ptolemaios, have received the copies of this for examination.
I, Isidoros, have received it jointly.
I, Souchammon, have received it jointly.
I, Ptolemaios, have received it jointly.
Year 29 of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mesore 16.
No residents are declared, so this is a return of property owned by absentee Antinoite citizens. Laographoi were village officials who kept the registers of persons liable to 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.