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Census return of the freedwoman Herakleia from Moithymis TM 16909Moithymis (Memphites)

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A census return in which Herakleia, a freedwoman living at Moithymis in the Memphite nome, registers herself, her two daughters and a slave girl in her house for the census of Commodus' 28th year. It is dated Thoth 23 of year 29 (AD 188), and a second copy addressed to the same official begins below.

In English machine translation

[1] To Dionysios, […] of the Memphite (nome), from Herakleia, freedwoman of Senamounis daughter of Petesouchos, from Moithymis in the Memphite nome. I own in Moithymis of the […] a house and courtyard and the appurtenances, in which I register myself and my household for the house-by-house census of the 28th year of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord: myself, Herakleia, freedwoman, aged 45, and my fatherless daughter Senamounis daughter of Abis (?), aged 20, Tastoous her sister, aged 12, and my slave Thermouthis, aged 15. And I swear by the fortune of the lord Commodus Caesar that this is true. Year 29 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Germanicus Maximus Britannicus, Thoth 23. I, Herakleia, freedwoman of Senamounis, have submitted (this) as stated above. [… 5 lines lost …] [2] To Dionysios […] of the Memphite (nome) from […]mon […] […]

The census year 28 of Commodus corresponds to AD 187/8; the return was filed early in the following regnal year. Census returns were usually filed in several copies, hence the second address.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zensus - Eingabe). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Moithymis (Memphites)

[1] Διονυσίωι … Μεμφίτου παρὰ Ἡρακλείας ἀπελευθέρας Σεναμοῦνις τῆς Πετεσούχου ἀπὸ Μοιθῦμις τοῦ Μεμφίτου νομοῦ. ὑπάρχει μοὶ ἐν τῇ Μοιθῦμι τοῦ … οικ……α οἰκία καὶ αὐλὴ καὶ τὰ συνκύροντα, εἰς ἣν ἀπογράφομαι ἑαυτὴν καὶ τοὺς ἐμοὺς πρὸς τὴν τοῦ κη ἔτους Αὐρηλίου Κομμόδου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσα…