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Application by a widow for the epikrisis of her son Didymos TM 10724Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)160 - 161

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An application for the status examination (epikrisis) of an 11-year-old boy, Didymos, submitted by his mother Arsinoe, widow of Bion, to the examining officials at Ptolemais Euergetis, the capital of the Arsinoite nome. She documents the father's earlier examination and census registrations to establish the boy's privileged katoikos status. It dates to the 24th year of Antoninus Pius, AD 160-161.

In English machine translation

To […] Longinus Titoleius and Ptolemaios, former gymnasiarchs, examiners, from Arsinoe daughter of Aphrodisios son of Dioskoros, her mother being […] daughter of Akousilaos, katoikos, registered in the quarter of the Macedonians, with as guardian her kinsman D[…], concerning the son born to me by my former and now deceased husband Bion son of Bokmos alias Bion son of Bion, his mother being […]is daughter of Sambas, katoikos of those from the metropolis, registered in the quarter of Tharapeia, Didymos alias […], who has reached 11 years of age in the present 24th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord and ought to be examined by you according to the orders. I have set out both my own rights and those of his father, and his father Bion, examined in the 6th year of the deified Hadrian, was registered in the periodic house-by-house census returns of the 16th year of the deified Hadrian and the 9th year of Antoninus Augustus […] in the quarter of Tharapeia, and in that of the […] year […] My parents are […] my father […] […] quarter […] […] quarter […] of the Hermopolite […] […]

Epikrisis was the official examination confirming a boy's hereditary privileged status; in the Arsinoite nome the katoikoi were a privileged group of settlers. The end of the text, with the parents' details, is badly damaged.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anmeldung zur Epikrisis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 160 - 161 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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