A property return submitted by Aurelius Aneiketos, a councillor of Oxyrhynchus, to the census officials (laographoi) of the village of Ision Panga. Following the prefect's order, he registers for the census of year 1 of the Philippi a quarter share of vacant plots with a dovecote and outbuildings, inherited from his father and grandfather. Dated 5 April 245.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To the laographoi of Ision Panga,
from Aurelius Aneiketos son of Ploutarchos, former boagos (?), councillor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites.
In accordance with the orders of Aurelius Basileus, former prefect, I register for the house-by-house census of the past year 1 of Marcus Julius Philippus and Marcus Julius Philippus, Caesars, our lords, the property belonging to me in the village of Ision Panga, in the eastern parts of the village, at the locality a… d[…], formerly of Berenikianos also called S…a, nicknamed Eudaimon, son of Diogenes, his mother being Eudaimonis, from the same city, and that same property formerly of my father and grandfather Horeion also called Berenikianos, a 1/4 share of vacant plots in which there are a dovecote and other outbuildings; and I swear the oath customary among Romans that I have not lied. Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Julius Philippus Pius Felix Augustus and Marcus Julius Philippus, most noble and most illustrious Caesar, of the Augusti, Pharmouthi 10. I, Aurelius Aneiketos son of Ploutarchos, have submitted this and sworn the oath.
Registered by the laographoi.
Sheets 69, 70.
[verso]
House-by-house return of year 1 […] Ision Panga.
Laographoi were local officials responsible for the population register. The office 'boagia' held by the declarant is a liturgical post connected with festivals or cattle whose exact sense is uncertain; the note on sheets 69 and 70 refers to the place of the return in a glued roll of filed declarations.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Property 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.