A census return submitted in AD 174 to Apion, royal scribe of the Prosopite nome, by Pantbeus son of Hartysis and female relatives of the village of Thelbonthon Siphtha. It declares two inherited houses and empty plots and lists the household members with their ages.
In English machine translation
102
To Apion, royal scribe of the Prosopite nome,
from Pantbeus son of Hartysis son of Pnepherotithoes, and Stoetis his sister, and Thapeis and Thanibechis, both daughters of Peebos. We register,
in accordance with the orders of Calvisius Statianus,
the most illustrious prefect,
for the house-by-house census being held under good auspices,
the property belonging to us
in the village: 2 houses and empty plots of another kollema (?),
of Peebos and Pantbeus, both sons of Hartysis
son of Pnepherotithoes, formerly belonging to their father,
in which (live):
Pantbeus son of Hartysis son of Pnepherotithoes,
mother Thsentithoes daughter of Pnepherotithoes, aged 40, without distinguishing marks;
Pnepherotithoes son of Pantbeus, mother
Stoetis daughter of Pnepherotithoes, aged 16, without distinguishing marks;
Thapeis daughter of Peebos son of Pnepheros, mother
Hierakiaina daughter of Iarphichis, aged 13.
Year 14 of Imperator Caesar
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Augustus Armeniacus Medicus
Parthicus Germanicus Maximus,
Epeiph 25.
I, Pantbeus son of Hartysis,
have submitted it
as stated above.
Through Harpok[...], sheet 42.
The numbers 102 at the top and sheet 42 at the end refer to the document's place in a glued roll of returns; kollema likely denotes a land parcel unit. Calvisius Statianus was prefect of Egypt.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as (Déclaration de recensement de Thelbonthon Siphtha)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.