Fragments of a register of people subject to the poll tax (laographia) from Ptolemais Euergetis, the capital of the Arsinoite nome, dating to AD 94-95. It lists individuals by name, father, mother and age, groups them by household and house, and notes details such as brothers, wives, sons, an occupation (weaver, public farmer) and a person with poor eyesight.
In English machine translation
[Fragment A]
[...]
[...]na[...]
[...] [...]skatos son of [...]
[...] brother, of the same mother [...]
[...]phas[...] [...]thio Da[...]
[...] [...] Harphaesis [...]
[...] brother, of the same mother [...]
[...]
[...] Lacheis son of Harops, mother Sa[...]
[...] in which is the house of Lucius Vestinus [...]
[...] of a double-storeyed (?) [...]
[...] [...]tos son of Phasis, mother Tanekpherós [...]
[...] [...]pherós son of Panomgeus [...]
[...] [...]os the elder, son of Pnepherós son of Pnepherós, mother Tap[...]
[...] [...]os the younger, brother, of the same mother [...]
[...]s son of Petesouchos son of Nepherós, mother [...]
[...]
[...]
[Fragment B]
[...]
[...] service [...]
[...] mother Tapetsiris daughter of Horos, aged 3 [...]
[...] Keletes, son of Herakles son of Apollonios, mother [...]
[...] with weakened eyesight, aged 6[...] [...]
[...] the aforementioned son Horion [...]
[...] of the 14th year, total [...]
[...]mouth daughter of Theon, aged [...]
[...] Apollonios son of Apollonios, mother [...]
[...]
[...] from a memorandum Tam[...]
[...] of the aforementioned [...]
[...] total 10 [...]
[...] of the lord, in the month Domitianos [...]
[...] [...]esis, mother Thaisous, aged 3[...] [...]
[...] mother Didyme daughter of Dionysios, aged 20, total 2 [...]
[...] daughter of Apollonios, weaver, aged 3[...] [...]
[...]
[Fragment C]
[...]
[...] mother [...]eus [...]
[...] of the son [...]
[...] son of Ammonios, mother Thatreis [...]
[...]os son of Melankomas, mother Ta[...]
[...] of the wife Tauris daughter of [...]
[...] [...]eis son of Harops, mother Tap[...]
[...] brother [...]
[...] Panomgeus [...], mother Herakleia [...]
[...]
[Fragment D]
[...]
[...]
[...] her, public farmer [...]
[...] mother Kolleuthis daughter of [...]
[...] brother, of the same mother [...]
[...] brother, of the same mother [...]
[...] [...]menos son of Theos son of Et[...]
[...]os, mother Tepherós [...]
[...]os son of Onnophris [...]
[...]
Domitianos was the name given under Domitian to the month Phaophi (or Hathyr). The house of Lucius Vestinus probably belonged to the well-known Roman official of that name.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lista di Λαογραφούμενοι). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.