A property declaration submitted for the house-by-house census to Apion, royal scribe of the Prosopite nome, by five co-owners from Nikiou. They register a house, vacant plots and other property in the village of Thelbonthon Siphtha and state each family's share. It is dated 19 July 174.
In English machine translation
107
To Apion, royal scribe of the Prosopite nome,
from Kallinikos and Osarapollon and Areia, the three children of Apollonios, and Heraklas and Kallinikos, both sons of Asklepiades, the five from Nikiou.
We register, in accordance with the orders of Calvisius Statianus, the most illustrious prefect, for the house-by-house census taking place under good auspices, the property belonging to us in the village of Thelbonthon Siphtha: a house and vacant plots and […] all […] 200 cubits; of which Kallinikos and Osarapollon and Areia, the three children of Apollonios, own the share that fell to their father, 1/2, and Heraklas and Kallinikos the remaining share, [1/3(?)], in which no one […]
Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Germanicus Maximus, Epeiph 25.
We, Kallinikos and Osarapollon and Areia, the three children of Apollonios son of Kallinikos, and Kallinikos and Heraklas, both sons of Asklepiades, the five from Nikiou, have submitted this as stated above.
I, Kallinikos son of Apollonios, wrote on their behalf because they were not present.
Through Harpok(ration?), sheet 4[2(?)].
The number 107 at the top and the closing sheet number show this declaration was glued into an official roll of census returns. The second share is restored as 1/3, though with half for the first family the remainder should logically be 1/2.
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.