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Census return of Chairemon for an uninhabited jointly owned house TM 20616Oxyrhynchos25. Nov. 132

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The end of a census return from Oxyrhynchus in which Chairemon son of Chairemon declares a house in the Myrobalanos quarter, formerly his father's and held jointly with Kleon son of Dionysios and others, where nobody lives. He swears by the emperor Hadrian that the return is true; it is dated 25 November 132.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] [in the quarter of] Myrobalanos, a house and fixtures, formerly belonging to my father, held in partnership with Kleon son of Dionysios and others, in which no one is registered or lives. And I swear by Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus that I have submitted the foregoing return honestly and truthfully, and that neither a stranger nor a Roman nor an Alexandrian nor an Egyptian nor a freedman nor anyone else lives there or is registered apart from those written above, or may I be liable to the oath. Year 17 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Hathyr 29. I, Chairemon son of Chairemon, have submitted this and sworn the oath.

The opening of the return is lost; the surviving part declares property in which no one is registered, so it records no household members. Myrobalanos was a named quarter (amphodon) of Oxyrhynchus.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. Nov. 132 · Oxyrhynchos

[… ? lines lost …] […]ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Μυροβαλάνου οἰκίαν καὶ χρηστήρια πρότερον αὐτοῦ πατρός μου κοινωνικὸν πρὸς Κλέωνα Διονυσίου καὶ ἄλλους εἰς ὃ οὐδεὶς ἀπογράφεται οὐδὲ καταγίνεται. καὶ ὀμνύω Αὐτοκράτορα Καίσαρα Τραιανὸν Ἁδριανὸν Σεβαστὸν ἐξ ὑγιοῦς καὶ ἐπʼ ἀληθείας ἐπιδεδωκέναι τὴν…