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p.oxy.40.2921

Application to Receive the Dole via HGV-meta

Application to receive the grain dole. Fragment of an application from Oxyrhynchus by a man asking to share in the public grain dole granted by decision of the city council. It is dated in Choiak of the first regnal year of Aurelian and Vaballathus, December AD 270, and ends with subscriptions by Aureliuses, one written for someone who could not write. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] …[…]…[…] τὰ βιβλίδια, ἀξιῶν καὶ αὐτὸς μετασχεῖν τῆς φιλανθρωπίας καὶ τῆς κοινῆς τοῦ σιτηρεσίου δωρεᾶς κατὰ τὰ δόξαντα τῇ κρατίστῃ βουλῇ. ἔτους α Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Λουκίου Δομιττίου Αὐρηλιανοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Ἰουλίου Αὐρηλίου Σεπτιμίου Οὐαβαλλάθου Ἀθηνοδώρου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου βασιλέως ὑπάτου αὐτοκράτορος στρατηγοῦ Ῥωμαίων, Χοιὰκ α… […] Αὐρήλιος …[…] Αὐρήλιος …ν[…] […] μὴ εἰδότος γράμματα […]……[…] […]…[…]…[…] [… ? lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] […] […] the petitions, asking [that I too may share in the] benevolence and the [common] gift [of the grain dole] in accordance with [what was resolved by the most excellent council.] Year 1 of Imperator Caesar [Lucius] Domitius Aurelianus [Pius Felix] Augustus and [of] Julius [Aurelius Septimius] Vaballathus Athenodorus, [the most illustrious] king, consul, im[perator, general] of the Romans, Choiak 1(?) […] [A]urelius […] [Aurel]ius […] […] not knowing [letters] […] […] […]

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