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Application by Aurelia Tauris, a woman of Oxyrhynchus, to the curator (logistes) of the Oxyrhynchite nome for the first registration of her grandson, the son of her soldier son Aurelius Theodoros. The household is located in the quarter of Pammenes' Garden, and the document dates to AD 320.
The logistes (curator civitatis) was the chief financial and administrative official of the city; registration of boys was linked to status and tax liability. The end of the text is lost..
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for Registration of a Child). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίνου Σεβαστοῦ τὸ ϛ καὶ Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος τὸ α,[…] Οὐαλερίῳ Ἀμμωνιανῷ τῷ καὶ Γεροντίῳ διοικοῦντι τὴν λογιστείαν Ὀξυρυγχείτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Ταΰριος Ὡρίωνος[…] ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως. βούλομαι πρώτω…
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