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Birth declaration and census return from the First Goose-pens quarter TM 9908Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)119

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Two documents written on the same papyrus from Ptolemais Euergetis, the capital of the Arsinoite nome, in AD 119. The first is the end of a birth declaration by a couple, the husband a son of Zoilos, registering their four-year-old son, born in Trajan's 17th year. The second is the beginning of a census return by Hermas son of Diodoros, who declares the residents of his twelfth share of a house in the First Goose-pens quarter for the census of Hadrian's year 2.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] […] of Zoilos, mother Didis daughter of Heuremon, [and his wife …] […] daughter of […]on, mother Thaubas, with her guardian […] [both registered from the metropolis] [in the quarter] of the First Goose-pens, we register the [son born to us from each other …] [born in the month …] of the past 17th year of Trajan Caesar the lord [and being in the present 20th year] […] 4 years old. Therefore we submit […] […] of Zoilos. Year 20 of Imperator Caesar N[erva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus] Parthicus, Phamenoth 4. To Eudemos, strategos, and Hermaios also called Dryton, royal [scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, and] to Herakleides and Euboulos, scribes of the metropolis, and to Herakleides, exegetes [and associate collectors of money taxes of the metropolis, and] to Diogenes, amphodarch of the First Goose-pens, and […] from Hermas son of Diodoros, grandson of Harpalos, mother […] […] of other places, registered by means of another memorandum. I own in the same quarter […] a twelfth share of a house in which I live, and I register the residents listed below for the house-by-house census of the past year 2 of Hadrian Caesar the lord, [in the quarter of the First] Goose-pens, in which also in the house-by-house census of year 7 of the deified Trajan I registered […] And they are: Dioskoros son of Didymos [… lines lost …]

The birth declaration is dated Phamenoth 4 of Trajan's 20th year (AD 117) but evidently copied or filed with the census return of 119. An amphodarch was the official in charge of a city quarter (amphodon).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dichiarazione di nascita e scheda di censimento). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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