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House-by-house census return of Ploution son of Ploution TM 21914Oxyrhynchos202 - 203

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A census return from Oxyrhynchus in which Ploution, aged 48, registers his quarter share of a house in the North Quay quarter and its occupants: himself, his two daughters and several slaves. It was filed for the census of year 10 of Septimius Severus and Caracalla, on the orders of the prefect Maecius Laetus, around AD 202-203.

In English machine translation

Copy for issue. From Ploution son of Ploution, grandson of Ploution, his mother being Tapsois, from the city of the Oxyrhynchi. In accordance with the orders of Maecius Laetus, the most illustrious prefect, I register for the house-by-house census of the past 10th year of the Caesars our lords Severus and Antoninus ⟦and Geta Caesar⟧ the fourth share of a house and courtyard and its fixtures belonging to me in the quarter of the North Quay, in which I register: myself, Ploution, without a trade, without distinguishing marks, aged 48; Dioskoros, my slave, without a trade, without distinguishing marks, aged […]8. Females: Tapsois also called Eudaimonis, my daughter, living with her husband Apollonios, without a trade, without distinguishing marks, about 20 years old; Gaiane, her full sister, without a trade, without distinguishing marks, about 15 years old; Aphrodite surnamed Isidora, purchased slave of my daughter Tapsois also called Eudaimonis, an Oasite by birth, living with her mistress, without a trade, without distinguishing marks, about 13 years old; Taeros, slave of myself, my brothers and others, without a trade, without distinguishing marks, about 35 years old; Taeipimachos, another slave of myself, my brothers and others, born of the slave Taeros, without a trade, without distinguishing marks, about 9 years old. And I swear by the fortune of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus […]

The name of Geta was deleted in the dating formula, reflecting his damnatio memoriae after AD 211, though it survives in the oath. The opening word marks this as a copy for issue to the declarant or an office.

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 · 202 - 203 · Oxyrhynchos

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