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p.oxy.40.2919

Application to Receive the Dole via HGV-meta

Application for enrolment in the grain dole. Fragment of an application from Oxyrhynchus by a man asking an official to enrol him among the recipients of the city's grain dole. He states that he has obtained a copy of supporting evidence from the local record office and submits it as proof of eligibility. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] […]………βιβλι…[…] ἀντίγραφον ἐκλαβὼν ἐκ τῆς ἐπὶ τόπων βιβλιοθήκης ἐπιφέρω τὴν ἀπόδειξιν καὶ ἀξιῶ κατὰ τὴν σὴν περὶ πάντα ἀγαθὴν εὐεργεσίαν διακελεῦσαι καταταγῆναί με ἐν τοῖς τὸ σιτηρέσιον λαμβάνουσι πρὸς τὸ καὶ ἐμὲ δύνασθαι τῆς κοινῆς φιλανθρωπίας μετασχεῖν. διευτύχει. [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[...] [...] ... [...] [...] ... book (?) [...] having obtained a copy from the local record office, I submit the proof and ask you, in accordance with your goodness and beneficence in all things, to order that I be enrolled among those receiving the grain dole, so that I too may share in the common benevolence. Farewell. [...]

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