Opening of a census return addressed to the strategos Protarchos, the royal scribe and the village scribe Herakleides of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome by Apion son of Apion, a member of the privileged 6475 Greek settlers registered in the Lycian quarter. He declares a half share of an unused mill-house owned with his half-brother, before the text breaks off. It dates to July-August AD 133, probably from Soknopaiou Nesos.
In English machine translation
To Protarchos, strategos, and […], royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, and to Herakleides, village scribe […]
from Apion son of Apion son of […], one of the 6475 Greek men, registered in the quarter of the Lycians. There belong to me and to my brother by the same mother Askle[…] son of Artemidoros, in the aforesaid village […] 1/2 share of an idle mill-house; and to the brother of my aforesaid father Apion […]
[…]
The 6475 Greek men of the Arsinoite nome were a privileged group of Greek settlers with a status comparable to the metropolitan class. The provenance from Soknopaiou Nesos 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 Census Return). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.