A census return submitted for the house-by-house census of Hadrian's Year 2, listing the declarant, aged 56, his wife, son, daughter and elderly mother, and declaring his one-eighth share of a house and courtyard. It was written at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome on 6 June 119.
In English machine translation
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for the house-by-house census of Year 2 of Hadrian Caesar the lord. I am […], son of(?) Menches(?), aged 56, without distinguishing mark, […]
and my wife T…th[…], daughter of Pekeis, aged 53, without distinguishing mark, […]
and our son Herakles, aged […], [without distinguishing mark,]
and daughter Ammonarion, aged […], [without distinguishing mark,]
and my mother Sentaos, daughter of Skammaios, aged 75, without distinguishing mark.
I own one-eighth share of a house and courtyard near the Harbichieion quarter.
Written through Aphro…, village scribe(?) of the village.
Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Pauni 12.
87.
The census year (Year 2 of Hadrian, 117/118) is the census referred to; the return was filed in Year 3. The final number 87 is probably a filing or sheet number, and the abbreviation after the scribe's name is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zensuseingabe). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.