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Census declaration registering a lodger in the Gymnasium quarter TM 14425Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)28. Aug. 189

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A copy of a census declaration submitted at Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) in AD 189 to the strategos, the royal scribe and the city scribes. The declarant, son of Didymos, who owns a third share of a house in the Gymnasium quarter, registers his lodger Syros son of Pasion, a 33-year-old farmer, for the census of year 28 of Commodus. Notes of filing with each official follow.

In English machine translation

[…] Copy. To Ammonios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, and to Harpokration also called Hierax, royal scribe of the same division, and to Heron and Mysthes, scribes of the city, from […] son of Didymos, registered through another memorandum. I own in the Gymnasium quarter a third share of a house, in which I register the undersigned lodger for the house-by-house census of the past 28th year, in the quarter of Dionysios' Places (?), in which I also registered in the census of the 14th year. He is Syros son of Pasion son of […], his mother being Philous, subject to poll tax, a farmer, aged 33. Therefore I submit this. Year 29 of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mesore, 5th intercalary day. Copy of the subscriptions. Filed with the strategos on the same day. Filed with the royal scribe on the same day. Filed with the city scribes on the same day […]

The declarant's own name is lost. The 'house-by-house registration' (kat' oikian apographe) was the Roman provincial census held every 14 years, here for AD 187/8.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zensusdeklaration). 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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p.mil.congr.xiv.pg17

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 28. Aug. 189 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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