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Copy of a census return of Papontos son of Psosnaus from Memphis TM 21437Memphites3. März 164

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Copy of a census return submitted to the strategos Apollonios by Papontos son of Psosnaus of Memphis, reproducing his earlier house-by-house return for year 23 of Antoninus Pius (AD 159/160) filed with Kephalon, royal scribe and acting strategos. The covering copy is dated 3 March 164 in the Memphite nome.

In English machine translation

[1] To Apollonios, strategos of the Memphite nome, from Papontos son of Psosnaus, from Memphis. Of the census return which I submitted to Kephalon, former royal scribe, who is also acting in the office of strategos, this is a copy. Year 4 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus, Phamenoth 7. It is as follows: To Kephalon, royal scribe of the Memphite nome, also acting in the office of strategos, from Papontos son of Psosnaus, his mother being Artemis, one of the idle (?) persons from Memphis, registered in the 5th quarter. I register myself and my household in the house in which I live in Memphis, [house] of […]os son of Polykrates, [in the same] quarter, for the house-by-house census of the present 23rd year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, myself [Papontos] in the same […] […] [2] […] […] […] and I swear [by the fortune of Imperator] Caesar Ti[tus Aelius Hadrianus] An[toninus Augustus Pius] […]

The copy was made in 164 under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, but the return itself belongs to the census of year 23 of Antoninus Pius (159/160), hence the oath by Antoninus. The term translated 'idle' (argoi) is uncertain in meaning here, possibly persons without a registered trade.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Amtliches Schriftstück mit Zensuseingabe). 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 · 3. März 164 · Memphites

[1] Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῷ Μεμφείτου παρὰ Παποντῶτος Ψοσναῦτος ἀπὸ Μέμφεως. ἧς ἐπέδωκα Κεφάλωνι γενομένῳ βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ ἀπογραφῆς διαδεχομένῳ καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν στρατηγίαν ἐστὶν ἀντίγραφον. ἔτους δ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Λ…