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p.oxy.40.2898
Application to Receive the Dole via HGV-meta
Application of Aurelius Melas to receive the Oxyrhynchus grain dole. Application by Aurelius Melas of Oxyrhynchus to Calpurnius Horion, the hypomnematographus, asking to be admitted to the city's grain dole. Although registered for it, he had failed to produce proof of his descent at the examination, and now submits the documents. Dated in the first year of Aurelian and Vaballathus, AD 270-271. machine translation
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- Application to Receive the Dole HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos270 - 271
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ἐπεκρίθη ιη
Καλπουρνίῳ Ὡρίωνι τῷ κρατίστῳ
ὑπομνηματογράφῳ βουλευτῇ τῆς λαμπροτάτης πόλεως τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων
παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Μέλανος Ἡρακλείδου
τοῦ Ἀμμωνίου τοῦ καὶ Διογένους μητρὸς Θαήσιος ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν
πόλεως. προσβὰς καὶ ἐπικριθεὶς
ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Μυροβαλάνου καὶ ἐνταγεὶς τοῖς ἐπιδοθεῖσι πρὸς τὸ ἱερὸν
σιτηρέσιον ὑπὸ τοῦ φυλάρχου κατʼ ἄνδρα βιβλίοις, ἐν δὲ τῇ διακρίσει τασσόμενος οὐ δεδύνημαι τὰς τοῦ γένους
μου ἀποδείξεις παρασχέσθαι· ἀναγκαίως νῦν παρέχων τῆς ἐπικρίσεως τὸ σύμβολον καὶ τοῦ γένους
τὰς ἀποδείξεις ἐπιδίδωμι τάδε
τὰ βιβλία καὶ ἀξιῶ καὶ αὐτὸς
μετασχεῖν τῆς τοῦ σίτου δωρεᾶς
ἐπικριθεὶς τῷ ιε ἔτει κατὰ τὰ δόξαντα τῇ κρατίστῃ βουλῇ πρὸς ἴσον
τῶν ὁμοίων μοι. διευτύχει.
ἔτους α Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος
Λουκίου Δομιττίου Αὐρηλιανοῦ
Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Ἰουλίου
Αὐρηλίου Σεπτιμίου Οὐαβαλλάθου
Ἀθηνοδώρου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου βασιλέως
ὑπάτου αὐτοκράτορος στρατηγοῦ Ῥωμαίων
[…] Αὐρήλιος Μέλας Ἡρακλείδου ἐπιδέδωκα. Αὐρήλιος
[…]ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ μὴ
εἰδότος γράμματα.
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Scrutinized, 18.
To Calpurnius Horion, the most excellent hypomnematographus, councillor of the most glorious city of the Alexandrians,
from Aurelius Melas son of Herakleides son of Ammonios alias Diogenes, his mother being Thaesis, from the glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites.
Having come of age and been scrutinized in the Myrobalanos quarter, and having been entered in the man-by-man lists submitted by the phylarch for the sacred grain dole, but when I was placed in the examination I was unable to produce the proofs of my descent. Now, of necessity, producing the token of the scrutiny and the proofs of descent, I submit these documents and ask that I too share in the gift of grain, having been scrutinized in the 15th year, in accordance with the decisions of the most excellent council, on an equal footing with those in the same position as me. Farewell.
Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Pius Felix Augustus and of Julius Aurelius Septimius Vaballathus Athenodorus, the most glorious king, consul, imperator, general of the Romans, […]
[…] I, Aurelius Melas son of Herakleides, have submitted this. I, Aurelius […], wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters.
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- TM-Text 45211 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;40;2898 tier-1
- HGV-Text 45211 tier-1
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