A fragmentary list of house owners and properties in Oxyrhynchus, recording small houses, courtyards and plots, apparently in the western part of the Kalathos quarter, together with owners, shares and the ages of some persons. It mentions a debtor Dionysios and a collector of metropolitan taxes, Aurelius Iustus. Early 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
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[…]os son of Petemennophris, son of Pete[…] […] now a small house, now of the […]
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[…] plots, now a small house,
[…] of the western part of the Kalathos (quarter) and
[…] and of the cousins of Pegoous […] of Dionysios and of the brothers […]
[…] courtyard in which (is) a small house […] and […] of the debtor Dionysios
[…] in which […] in private category,
[…] of Dionysios son of Pegoous […]
[…] the share belonging (to him), one third,
[…] Pete[…]is son of Loukios […]
[…]
[…] daughter of Tsenyris, aged 20,
[…] son of Psois, 24,
[…] 17,
[…] collector of metropolitan (taxes), Aurelius Iustus son of […]
"Private category" renders the term for property held privately rather than as public land. The mention of a debtor suggests a link to property seizure or tax collection.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of House - owners). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.