Application for enrolment of Theon among the ephebes TM 15625Oxyrhynchos10. Jan. - 28. Aug. 58

To Tiberius Claudius Potamon, priest, hypomnematographos and former exegetes, archidikastes and strategos of the city, and to the Kaisareioi and the other prytaneis, from Herakleides son of Herakleides, of the deme Althaieus, one of those who became ephebes in the 12th year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus. My son Theon, born to me of Poseidonia daughter of […], a citizen woman, had his lock of hair shorn in honour of the city on the 15th of Tybi of the present year in the great Serapeum, in the presence of the priest, hypomnematographos and exegetes. In accordance with your minutes that were drawn up, and wishing to complete the formalities of enrolment among the ephebes of the present 4th year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, I ask you to instruct the present kosmetes and gymnasiarch to admit him among the ephebes of the same year, and having examined (?) the aforementioned minutes, to tell the […] to subscribe for me the documents relating to his enrolment and ephebate, he having been examined by the reader who sends this memorandum, not hindering him because he was not presented at the presentations that were held nor is he in the registers of the mellakes, nor because he falls short by some period of time from the […] of the […] I have been assigned (?) his first-fruits (?) […] of the Kosmeion also called Althaieus, so that I may have received benefaction.