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Census declaration of Aurelia Demetria listing her slaves and property TM 21279Hermopolis216 - 217

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A census declaration submitted to the strategos Dioskourides by Aurelia Demetria, a 72-year-old woman of the gymnasial class of Hermopolis, acting with a male relative as guardian. She registers two slaves for the census of the 24th year of Caracalla and declares her house and a one-twelfth share of two further houses with a courtyard.

In English machine translation

To Dioskourides, strategos of the Hermopolite nome, […] from Aurelia Demetria […] daughter of Horion, her mother being Eudaimonis, of Hermopolis the city, (registered in) the West […] quarter, with my kinsman Aurelius E[…] son of Agathos Daimon, his mother being Theonermeinos(?), of Hermopolis, acting with me. Apart from my house which I registered […] and all its appurtenances in the West (quarter) […], I register, in accordance with the orders of Valerius Datus, the most illustrious prefect, for the house-by-house census of the 24th year of Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Caesar the lord, for the property belonging to me, myself and my household: […] my slave, born of the mother Ploteina, of the city, West (quarter), aged 34; […]nos also called Beryllos, surnamed Xenophon, another, born of the mother […] also called Hermione, my slave, of the city, West (quarter), aged 28; and myself, Aurelia Demetria, the aforementioned, of the gymnasial class, aged 72. There belongs to me in the city, West (quarter), a whole house and its appurtenances, and to the east of it a twelfth share, inherited from my father, of two adjoining houses and a courtyard and all appurtenances and entrance and exit; and I swear by the fortune of Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Caesar the lord that this is so. Year 25 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Parthicus Maximus […] …

The census of year 24 of Caracalla (AD 215/216) was ordered by the prefect Valerius Datus; the declaration itself is dated to year 25. Many names and phrases are restored from standard census formulas.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Denuncia di censimento). 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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p.mil.2.37

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 216 - 217 · Hermopolis

Διοσκουρίδῃ στρατηγῷ Ἑρμοπολίτου[…] παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Δημητρίας[…] τοῦ Ὡρίωνος μητρὸς ΕὐδαιμονίδοςἙρμοπολιτίδος πόλεως λιβὸς […]μετὰ συμπαρόντος μοι Αὐρηλίου Ε…[…]τοῦ Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονος Θεωνερμεινου μητρὸς[…]Ἑρμοπολίτου συγγενοῦς μου. χωρὶς ἧς ἀπεγραψάμην μου οἰκίας […]καὶ τῶν ἀνηκόντων…