Census Declaration
Declaration (kat'oikian apographe for the census of 103/104 A.D.) of various houses and vacant lots belonging to two brothers who were members of the elite group of the "6475 Hellens" of the Arsinoite nome
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12324
Census declaration of house property by Didymos son of Herakleides TM 12324Either Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, or Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt104-105 A.D.
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A census declaration submitted at Tebtynis in the Fayum by Didymos son of Herakleides, a member of the privileged settler group of the 6475 Greeks, to the nome and village officials. He declares house plots, part of another house and vacant lots owned jointly with his full brother Apion, for the house-by-house census of Trajan's 7th year (AD 103/104).
In English machine translation
To Apollonios, strategos, and Artemon, royal scribe, of the Arsinoite nome, Polemon division, and to Didymos, village scribe of the village of Tebtynis, and to Herodes and Pasion, laographoi of the same village,
from Didymos son of Herakleides also called Lourios, katoikos of those from the number of the 6475, registered in the Moeris quarter. There belongs to me and to my brother by the same father and the same mother, Apion, in the village of Tebtynis, jointly and in equal shares, a two-thirds part of house plots in three parcels, in which there are vaulted rooms and other outbuildings, and another part of another house in another parcel, and a two-thirds part of vacant lots in another parcel, in which no one is registered; these we also register for the house-by-house census of the past 7th year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus. Therefore I submit (this declaration).
(2nd hand) I, Apollonios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Polemon division, have received a copy of this […]
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The 6475 were a privileged class of Greek settlers (katoikoi) in the Arsinoite nome; laographoi were officials who kept the population and poll-tax registers. The quarter of registration (Moeris) is in the nome capital, so the document may have been filed there rather than at Tebtynis.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Census Return). 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.15.693
Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῶι καὶ Ἀρτέμονι βασιλικῶι γραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοίτου Πολέμωνος μερίδος καὶ Διδύμωι κωμογραμματεῖ κώμης Τεπτύνεως καὶ Ἡρώδηι καὶ Πασίωνι λαογράφοις τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης παρὰ Διδύμου τοῦ Ἡρακλείδου τοῦ καὶ Λουρίου κατοίκου τῶν ἐκ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τῶν Ϛυοε ἀναγραφομένου ἐπʼ ἀμφόδο…