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Census return of Athenais daughter of Isidoros TM 12589Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)104 - 105

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A census return (house-by-house registration) submitted by Athenais, daughter of Isidoros, with her husband as guardian, for the census of Trajan's 7th year. She declares the household living in her house in the quarter of Dionysios' Place at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome: herself, her mother(?) Athenarion, her husband and their two young sons.

In English machine translation

[To …] also called Ptolemaios son of Nikolaos, appointed […] of the katoikoi of the quarter of Dionysios' Place, from Athenais daughter of Isidoros son of Asklepiades also called […], her mother being Ptolemas also called Athenarion daughter of […] also called Sarapion, a katoikos of the 6475, registered in the quarter of Dionysios' Place, with her guardian, her husband […] son of Heliodoros son of Euboulos, his mother being Herakleia daughter of H[…], katoikos of the 6475. I own in the same quarter of Dionysios' Place a house in which I live with my family, and I register those written below for the house-by-house census of the past 7th year of Trajan Caesar the lord, in the same quarter, in which I was also registered in the house-by-house census of the 9th year of Domitian: Athenarion, the aforementioned, aged […]; and my aforementioned husband and guardian […] son of Heliodoros, his mother being Herakleia daughter of H[…], katoikos of the 6475, examined in the 9th year of Nero, aged 56 […]; and our children by each other, Heliodoros, registered among those born after the census in the 2nd year of the deified Nerva, aged 8, without distinguishing marks, and Isidoros, registered among those born after the census in the 6th year of Trajan, aged 1, without distinguishing marks. Therefore I submit […] [… ? lines lost …]

The 6475 were the privileged body of Greek settlers (katoikoi) of the Arsinoite nome, whose membership required formal examination (epikrisis). Ages and several names fall in lacunae.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Subject - 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 104 - 105 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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