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p.oxy.40.2896
Applications to Receive the Dole via HGV-meta
Application for admission to the grain dole in place of a deceased recipient. Fragment of an application to the grain dole at Oxyrhynchus, in which a man chosen by lot to fill a vacancy left by the death of Paulos son of Sokrates asks to be enrolled among the recipients. It is dated under the emperor Claudius II (AD 268-270), in the month Phaophi, and ends with a note by the official who checked his identity. machine translation
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- Applications to Receive the Dole HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos268
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Transcription
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τὰ δόξαντα τῇ κρατίστῃ βουλῇ
ἐπίλογχος λαχὼν χώρας παραπεσούσης εἰσάγω ἐμαυτὸν ἀντὶ[…]
[…]Παύλου Σωκράτους[…]
[…] μητρὸς Παυ[…]
ἐπὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀμφόδου τετελευτηκότος καὶ ἀξιῶ ἐνταγῆναι πρὸς
τὸ καὶ ἐμὲ μετασχεῖν τῆς τοῦ
σιτηρεσίου δωρεᾶς. […]
ἔτους[…]Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος
Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Κλαυδίου Εὐσεβοῦς
Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστοῦ Φαῶφι […]
[…]…άμμωνος ἐπιδέδωκα
[…]…άμμων ἔγραψα
ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ μὴ εἰδότος γράμματα […]
[…] ἐπικριτής· οὗτός ἐστιν
ὁ ἐπικριθεὶς ὃς καὶ ἀναγορευθεὶς
ὑπήκουσεν
[…]…ς γενόμενος φύλαρχος
[…]……ου οὓτως
[…]προκίμενος[…]
[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
[…]
[…the decisions] of the most excellent [council]
[having been] allotted [as a substitute] to the place [that fell vacant], I enter myself in place of […]
[…] Paulos son of Sokrates […]
[…] mother Pau[…]
[of the same] quarter, who has [died], and I ask to be registered [so that I too may] share in the [grain] dole.
[Year] […] of Imperator Caesar [Marcus Aurelius] Claudius Pius [Felix] Augustus, Phaophi […]
[I, …]ammon son of […]ammon, have submitted (this).
[I, …]ammon, wrote [on his behalf as he] does not know letters.
[…] scrutineer: this is [the man scrutinized, who] also, when called, [answered].
[…] having been phylarch […] thus […] aforesaid […]
[…]
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 45209 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;40;2896 tier-1
- HGV-Text 45209 tier-1
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