Fragment of a census return addressed to the laographoi (census and poll-tax officials) of the Oxyrhynchite district of Tegmenouthis by Aurelius Herakleides also called Claudius, an Alexandrian citizen and member of the sacred synod. It was filed under the orders of the former prefect Aurelius Basileus and mentions a house; it dates to AD 244-245 and comes from Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
[Fragment A]
To the laographoi of Tegmenouthis,
from Aurelius Herakleides also called Claudius […]
[…] son of Sarapodoros, of the Phylaxithalassian tribe and the Althaiean deme,
[of those] from the sacred synod. In accordance with [the orders given by]
[Aurelius] Basileus, the most illustrious [former prefect],
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[…] house […]
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[Fragment B]
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Laographoi were local officials who kept the population and poll-tax registers. The 'sacred synod' is probably the worldwide guild of athletes or performers, whose members often held Alexandrian citizenship, shown here by tribe and deme names.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zensusdeklaration). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.