One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20524
Census return of Horion, priest of Isis, from the Two Brothers quarter TM 20524Oxyrhynchus13 - 26 AD
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A household census return from Oxyrhynchus submitted to the local district and village scribes by Horion son of Petosiris, a priest of Isis attached to the temple 'of the Two Brothers' at the Serapeum. He lists the people living in a house he co-owns with his wife Tasis and others, but only the start of the list survives, including a physical description of one resident.
In English machine translation
To Eutychides and Theon, topogrammateis and komogrammateis,
from Horion son of Petosiris, priest of Isis the most great goddess, of the temple called 'of the Two Brothers', which is at the Serapeum near the city of Oxyrhynchus, in the lane of Myrobalanos.
The persons living in the house belonging to me and to my wife Tasis and to Taurion son of Harbichis and to Panpontos son of Nechthesoris and to Thaechmere, in the aforesaid (quarter) called 'of the Two Brothers', are the following:
[…] whose mother is Sintheos, without a trade, […]
[…] to his father […]
[…] in the temple (?), aged […], of medium height, honey-coloured complexion, long-faced […]
[…]
Topogrammateis and komogrammateis were local scribal officials of districts and villages who received census declarations. Descriptions such as 'honey-coloured' and 'long-faced' were standard identifying features in such returns.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Census Return). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.2.254
Εὐτυχίδῃ καὶ Θέωνι τοπογραμματεῦσι καὶ κωμογραμματεῦσι παρὰ Ὡρίωνος τοῦ Πετοσίριος ἱερέως Ἴσιδος θεᾶς μεγίστης ἱεροῦ Δύο Ἀδελφῶν λεγομένου τοῦ ὄντος ἐπὶ τοῦ πρὸς Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει Σαραπιήου ἐν λαύρᾳ Μυροβαλάνου. εἴσιν οἱ καταγινόμενοι ἐν τῇ ὑπαρχούσῃ μοι καὶ τῇ γυναικὶ Τάσιδι καὶ Τ…