A census declaration submitted by four brothers, sons of Petos, to Apion, royal scribe of the Prosopite nome, registering their shares of a house with an oil press and empty plots in the village of Thelbonthon Siphtha, none of them inhabited. It was filed on 19 July 174 and written for them by Agathos Daimon because they were illiterate.
In English machine translation
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To Apion, royal scribe of the Prosopite nome,
from Pantbeus and Tithoennesis and Palakres
and Haronnesis, the 4 sons of Petos
son of Pnepheros.
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
in the village of Thelbonthon Siphtha:
of a house and another empty plot of Thaeies daughter of Psenamounis,
100 cubits, in which there is an oil press,
Pantbeus 2 shares and Tithoennesis 1 share
and Palakres 1 share and Haronnesis 1 share,
the 4 sons of Petos son of Pnepheros,
in which no one is registered; and of Pnepheros
empty plots of 668 1/2 cubits, belonging to the same
aforementioned, the share falling to each;
and of Petos an empty plot belonging to the same aforementioned,
and the share falling to each of 1/2 share, and
the remaining 1/2 share to Thermouthis daughter of Pnepherotithoes
for the 4th share, and to Nouatis son of Palachres
from the inheritance of Pnepheros son of Pnepheros the remaining
4th share, in which no one is registered.
Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Augustus Armeniacus
Medicus Parthicus Germanicus
Maximus, Epeiph 25.
We, Pantbeus and Tothoennesis
and the brothers, have submitted it as stated above.
I, Agathos Daimon son of Saiphis, wrote
on their behalf, as they do not know letters.
Through Harpok[...], column 42.
The numbers 105 at the top and 'column 42' at the end show this declaration was pasted into a composite official roll. The share arithmetic in the middle is garbled by scribal omissions supplied by the editor.
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.