One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 14147
Fragment naming Sisois and Horos with their ages TM 14147Bakchias (Arsinoites)Roman CE 178-179
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Fragment of a document from Bakchias in the Arsinoite nome listing at least two men, Sisois and Horos, with their ages, and referring to something "customary" in the current 19th year. It is dated to year 19 of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus (AD 179).
In English machine translation
[… lines lost …]
[…] of the current 19th year […]
the customary […]
Sisois, aged 4[…] (?)
Horos, aged 52 […]
Year 19 of the Aurelii Antoninus and Commodus, the lords Augusti, Pii […]
The listing of men with ages and "the customary" may suggest a declaration such as one concerning priests or liturgical service, but the content is uncertain. The physical object record gives the broader date AD 178-179.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment unsicheren Inhalts). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.bacch.23
[… ? lines lost …] […]ἐνεστῶτος ιθ ἔτους […] τὴν συνήθη α[…] Σισόις ἐτῶν δ[…] Ὧρος ἐτῶν νβ […] ἔτους ιθ Αὐρηλίων Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Κομμόδου τῶν κυρίων Σεβαστῶν Εὐσεβῶν