Opening of a house-by-house census return addressed to Potamon, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, by Sarapion son of Deios, resident of the metropolis. He declares himself as living in a share of a house and courtyard in the Bithynian quarter, owned jointly with his sister Apollonarion alias Sarapias, for the census of year 14 of Aurelius Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius, AD 174/5).
In English machine translation
65
To Potamon, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Sarapion son of Deios son of […], his mother being
Isarous, from the metropolis, registered in the quarter
of Plateia. There belongs to me and to my sister
Apollonarion also called Sarapias […] a share
of a house and courtyard in the quarter of the Bithynians […],
in which I register myself for the
house-by-house census of the past year 14 of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the
lord, in the […] quarter,
in which I also registered at the census of year 23.
And I am the aforementioned Sarapion,
a private person, subject to poll tax […]
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The number 65 at the top is a sheet number from a roll of glued returns; this is the first of two census returns on the papyrus. Year 14 of Aurelius Antoninus is probably AD 173/4 of Marcus Aurelius, with the earlier census of year 23 referring to Antoninus Pius (AD 159/60).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Two Census Returns). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.