Fragment of a register of houses and house-shares listed by owner, each followed by the names of the inhabitants with their fathers, grandfathers and mothers. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
[…] brother by the same mother […]
[…] Zoidous daughter of Theon […]
[…] Diogenes son of Akous, mother […]
[house …] of Herois daughter of Heron; inhabitants:
Heron son of Heron son of Petalos, mother Melanous, private person (?) […]
1/8 share of a house of Isidora daughter of Heron; inhabitants:
Heron son of Aphrodisios son of Dioskoros also called Heron […]
1/2 share of a house of Thaisarion daughter of Heron; inhabitants:
Kastor son of Heron son of Heron, mother Thaisas […]
1/4 share of a house of Tasoucharion daughter of Sambas
Sotas son of Dionysios son of Chairemon, mother […]
[…] of the gymnasium, house of Torthytarion daughter of Sokrates […]
Philadelphos also called Sotas […]
[…] 1/2 share of a house of Agathos Daimon […]
of Asklepiades son of Chrysippos […]
Heron the younger son of Theogiton […]
Areios brother by the mother […]
[of a house and] courtyard, 1/2 share, own property, Heron son of P[…]
[of a house and] courtyard and entrance and exit […]
[…] of the sister […]
[…] of Ptolemaios […]
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The list resembles census or property registers organized by house; the restoration idiotes (private person, i.e. non-privileged status) is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.