Census return
Declaration from Semtheus, son of Hephaistas
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Census return of Semtheus son of Hephaistas for his share of a house TM 21539Herakleopolis, Herakleopolite nome, province of Egypt132/133 A.D.
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A census return from Semtheus son of Hephaistas, a 39-year-old katoikos of Herakleopolis, addressed to Polydeukes, scribe of the metropolis, declaring his share of a house for the census of Hadrian's 16th year. It was filed in Hadrian's 17th year (AD 132/133) and ends with an oath by the emperor and Herakles.
In English machine translation
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To Polydeukes, scribe of the metropolis and of Hormos,
from Semtheus son of Hephaistas,
grandson of Panasis, his mother being Nemesous daughter of Herakleios, one of the
katoikoi from Herakleopolis,
registered in the former amphodarchy of Areios.
I register for the 16th year of Hadrian
Caesar the lord, in accordance with the
orders of Flavius Titianus
the most excellent prefect,
in respect of the share belonging to me
of a house near the (temple?) of Harpsenesis.
I am Semtheus, the
katoikos, aged 39,
and I swear by the fortune of Imperator
Caesar Traianus Hadrianus
Augustus and by the god
Herakles that I have submitted the foregoing return honestly and truthfully
and have told no lie and concealed nothing at all, nor omitted anyone who ought to be registered by me, or may I be liable
to the oath. Year 17 of Imperator
Caesar Traianus Hadrianus
Augustus […]
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Katoikoi were a privileged settler class of Hellenic descent; the number 392 at the top is the sheet's place in a glued roll of returns. Column 1 preserves only scraps of another return in the same roll.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Census Returns). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Census Return
Part of one of a pair of apographai (the other is P.Oslo. 3.99) from a sugkoll�simon, from the village of Ancyron in the Heracleopolite nome.
p.oslo.3.98
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