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Epikrisis declaration for Dionysios son of Chairemon by his mother Eudaimonis TM 14426Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)96 - 97 (?)

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A declaration for the epikrisis (status scrutiny) of a 13-year-old boy, Dionysios, submitted by his widowed mother Eudaimonis with her elder son Horion as guardian, to Diogas, former kosmetes in charge of the scrutiny in the metropolis. She proves the family's status by citing earlier census registrations under Nero, Vespasian and Domitian.

In English machine translation

To Diogas, former kosmetes, […] the official in charge of the scrutiny (epikrisis) of certain quarters of the metropolis, from Eudaimonis daughter of Dionysios also called Zoilos, her mother being Thaesis, with her son Horion as guardian, both registered from the metropolis in the quarter of Apollonios' Hierakeion. Since my son by my former and now deceased husband Chairemon son of Horion son of Chairemon, his mother being Heraklous daughter of Hermias, the full brother of my other son by Chairemon, Horion, namely Dionysios, has reached 13 years in the present year 1 of Imperator Nerva Caesar Augustus, aged 13 in year 1, without distinguishing marks, and must undergo scrutiny according to the orders, I have set out below the rights of both myself and their father Chairemon. In the house-by-house census of year 8 of Nero we both registered in the same quarter […] house […] Horion son of Chairemon, the grandfather of Dionysios and Horion, was registered […]. In the house-by-house census of year 8 of the deified Vespasian, ordered by […] our lord the former prefect, we both registered in our own […] rights in the quarter of Syriake […], registering with us our aforementioned son Horion and our daughters Heraklous and Heraidous. In the house-by-house census of year 9 of Domitian I, Eudaimonis, registered with my aforementioned son Horion and one of my daughters, Heraklous, registering also my son Dionysios, now under scrutiny, as a minor, the father of Horion and Dionysios having already died; and my son Dionysios, now under scrutiny, […] in the list of minors by the father of both, Chairemon, in year […] of Domitian, in the month Phaophi […] their aforementioned father Chairemon […] in the list of the deceased in year 9 of Domitian, in the month Tybi; and my aforementioned son Horion was scrutinized by you in year 10 of Domitian […] […] Imperator […]

Epikrisis was the scrutiny establishing a boy's privileged status (here metropolitan, liable to reduced poll tax) by proving descent from registered parents. The kosmetes was a municipal magistrate overseeing the gymnasium.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Epikrisiserklärung). 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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p.mil.congr.xiv.pg22

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 96 - 97 (?) · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

Διογᾷ κεκοσμητευκότι …ρ…κλ…ισε…τῶι πρὸς τῆι ἐπικρίσει τινῶν ἀμφόδων μητροπόλεως παρὰ Εὐδαιμονίδος τῆς Διονυσίου τοῦ καὶ Ζωίλου μητρὸς Θαήσιος μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ υἱοῦ Ὡρίωνος ἀμφοτέρων τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως ἀναγραφομένων ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Ἀπολλωνίου Ἱερακείου. τοῦ γεγονότος μοι ἐκ τοῦ γε…