Fragments of a register of persons, apparently fugitives or people registered away from home, listed by the pagarchy and the hamlet, settlement or estate where they were found, with counts of names and their guarantors. It comes from Aphrodito in the Antaiopolite nome around AD 709.
In English machine translation
[Fragment 1]
[verso]
In the hamlet (chorion) of Thmalix […]
In the settlement (epoikion) of Psonai An…[…]
Part of the estate of Abba Ouenein […]
In the settlement of Kanou […]
In the hamlet of Psinabele […]
[…] Psinabele […]
[…]
[recto]
[…] 2 names
[…] of Onnophrios, 1 name
[…]pis, 1 name
[…]na, daughter, 2 names
[…]
[Fragment 2]
of the settlement of Poimen
thus:
To the pagarchy of Kynon (Kynopolis)
thus:
In the (estate?) of Saint John of Nekoom […]
To the southern district of Hermopolis […]
In the hamlet of Paploou […]
To the pagarchy of Antaiou and Apollonos […]
[…]ekeos […]
[…]
[verso]
[…]
[…] his brother
[…]e, his guarantor, 2 names
[…] Tzamoul Isak, 2 names
[…] 6 names
[…]
[Fragment 3]
To the pagarchy of Hypsele […]
thus:
In the estate of Saint Mary […]
In the settlement of Abba Paulos […]
thus:
of Ioannes son of Aroos, shepherd […]
Apollo son of Andreas […]
[…]
[recto]
[…]
[…]sios, salt-seller, his guarantor, 1 name
[…] of Philotheos, through Zacharias son-in-law of Enoch, […] name(s)
[…] his guarantor, 2 names
[…] shepherd, his guarantor, 1 name
[…] his guarantor, 1 name
[…]
[Fragment 4]
Register (hypotage) 3 (?) […]
In the hamlet of Telke […]
In the hamlet of Tachlout […]
In the hamlet of Bastakk[…]
To the pagarchy of Antinoou
[…]
[verso]
[…] 2 names
[…]
[…] Panychates, 3 names
[…] 30 names
[…]os, 3 names
[…]
[Fragment 5]
[recto]
To the pagarchy of Hypsele
thus:
In the city
thus:
of Ioannes Erits[…]
Markos son of Georgios […]
Dianne son of Pes[…]
To the pagarchy of Antaiou and Apollonos […]
[…]e […]
[verso]
[…]as, 1 name
[…] Pebo and Menas son of Pasinos, 2 names
[…]outh and his brother, 2 names
[…]
[…] and his sons […]
[…]
[Fragment 6]
[recto]
[…]
[…] Toeto
thus:
In the settlement of Psintke […]
In the hamlet of Ibion […]
To the pagarchy of Panos
thus:
[…]
[verso]
[Fragment 7]
[recto]
Register […]
[…] Toeto
In the village of Klaudios […]
In the hamlet of Psintke […]
In the settlement of Mauros […]
In the estate of Thalme […]
In the settlement of Akanthon […]
In the settlement of Atsar […]
[…]
[verso]
[…] 1 name
[…] 2 names
[…] 1 name
[…]
[…]au Paras, 2 names
[…] Phoibammon, 3 names
[…]
[Fragment 8]
[…]
To the pagarchy of Antaiou and Apollonos […]
[…]
In the settlement of […]
In Teruthe […]
[…]
[recto]
[…]
Such Aphrodito registers typically record fugitives (phygades) found outside their home district and the guarantors (antiphonetai) standing for them. Chorion, epoikion and ktema are kinds of rural settlement or estate, rendered here as hamlet, settlement and estate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.