A census return submitted to Apion, royal scribe of the Prosopite nome, by Thermouthis daughter of Tantbeus of the village of Thelbonthon Siphtha, listing the household living in a house belonging to her children. It was filed on 19 July 174 AD under the reign of Marcus Aurelius, with a scribe writing for the illiterate declarant.
In English machine translation
104
To Apion, royal scribe of the Prosopite nome,
from Thermouthis daughter of Tantbeus, from Thelbonthon Siphtha.
I 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 me
in the village:
a house and vacant plots, formerly of Pnepheros son of Tithoennesis, now of my children whose names are listed below, in which (live):
Thermouthis daughter of Tantbeus, wife, aged 42;
Tithoennesis son of Pnepheros,
the son, aged 19, without distinguishing marks;
Areia daughter of Hierakion, freedwoman
of Pnepherontithoes
son of Saiphis, aged 16;
Thermouthis the daughter, aged 1;
Perpheis son of Pnepheros son of Tithoes,
mother Thermouthis daughter of Tantbeus,
minor, aged 10, without distinguishing marks;
Dionysios, son of both (parents),
minor, aged 9.
Year 14 of Imperator
Caesar Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus Augustus
Armeniacus Medicus
Parthicus Germanicus
Maximus, Epeiph 25.
I, Thermouthis, have submitted (this) as stated above.
I, Herakl(…) son of Hierakion, wrote
on her behalf, as she does not know letters.
Through Harpok(…), column 42.
The numbers 104 at the top and 'column 42' at the end refer to the document's position in an official roll of glued-together returns. Areia, a freedwoman aged 16, appears to be a member of the household, possibly the wife of the son Tithoennesis.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as (Déclarations 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.