Register of House Property
One fragment and a number of scraps of a register of house property. Property is described under its owner's name (in the genitive), and is situated in various villages of the Heracleopolite nome.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28726
Register of house property in Herakleopolite villages TM 287261902Middle or late 2nd century A.D.
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A fragmentary register of house property in villages of the Herakleopolite nome, listing owners by name with their houses or shares of houses, noting which were collapsed and which were found uninhabited. The verso preserves scraps mentioning the Nile flood and the inflow of water. It dates to the middle or later 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…] … Phatraious […]
[…]atraious son of Harsiesis and others, whose property […]
[…] houses, 5 (?), 3 collapsed, in the village of Thmoua… […]
[…] collapsed, and others … […]
[…] … 13
[…] a sixth share of a house situated in the same village […]
[…] … on the east and west …
It was found uninhabited.
[…] house in the same village, jointly with Akathe… […]
… […] other … by way of open (vacant) plots
It was found uninhabited.
Of Ammonios son of Herakleides, in equal share with Phil… […]
… house in the village of Mou… Chane, formerly the house of Ane…
It was found uninhabited.
Of Pachomreas son of Paos and Phatraious son of Inarzmithis, in equal share […]
with Opheilla (?) in the village of Mouchis, 3 parts out of 4 of a house […]
collapsed, formerly the house of Psenesis …… and … […]
on the east, the house formerly of Senpsenemis.
They were found uninhabited.
[… 12 lines lost …]
[verso]
[… 10 lines lost …]
[…] … from the rise (of the Nile) concerning the test
[…] concerning the inflow of the waters I have appended […]
The repeated phrase "it was found uninhabited" suggests an official inspection of abandoned or ruined houses. Many village and personal names are only partly preserved.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Register of House Property). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.hib.2.280
[r] […]…ατρεσακαθη… Φατραιοῦς πορς…[…] […]ατραιοῦς Ἁρσιήσιος καὶ ἄλλ ὧν τὰ ὑπάρχοντα[…] […] οἰκίαι ε γ συνπεπτωκυῖαι ἐν κώμῃ Θμουα…[…] […]ιου συνπεπτω καὶ ἀλλ … …[…] […]…η ιγ […] οἰκίας μέρος ἕκτον ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ κώμῃ οὔσης […] […]… ἀπηλιώτου καὶ λιβὸς οιοι ἐφάνη ἀοίκητος. […] οἰκι ἐ…