A census return submitted by a man whose mother was Helene, a resident of Ptolemais Euergetis (the Arsinoite metropolis), to the strategos, royal scribe, city scribe and quarter officials. He declares a quarter-share of a house and courtyard and registers himself (aged about 48) and members of his household for the census of Vespasian's 8th year (AD 75/76).
In English machine translation
To Ammonios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, and to Diomedes, royal scribe of the same division, and to Papos, scribe of the city, and […] and to Dioskourides, amphodarch, […] of the same quarter,
from […]n, his mother being Helene, from the metropolis, […] registered in the quarter of […]. I own a fourth part of a house and courtyard in which I live, and I register myself and my household for the house-by-house census of the 8th year of Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus in the same quarter, in which I also registered in the 8th year of Nero […].
And I am […] the aforementioned, about 48 years old, with a scar under the right knee,
and […] without distinguishing marks;
[…] daughter of […]thotes, about 30 years old, being (my?) daughter (?) […] who was […] in the 9th year […] without distinguishing marks, and the children born […] of her paternal grandfather's house […] and Artemis(?) […]
[…]
The left side of every line is lost and much of the heading is restored from parallel census returns; the identities and relationships of the household members are uncertain. Census returns of this period refer back to the previous fourteen-year census, here Nero's 8th year (AD 61/62).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zensus - Eingabe). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.