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Application for scrutiny of a son for the gymnasium class TM 15742Oxyrhynchos148 - 149

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An application from a resident of Oxyrhynchus for the scrutiny (epikrisis) of his thirteen-year-old son Ammonios for admission to the privileged gymnasium class. He proves eligibility by citing his own father's scrutiny under Vespasian and his great-grandfather's listing in the register of the 34th year of Augustus. It dates to the 12th year of Antoninus Pius (AD 148-149).

In English machine translation

[recto] [To …] of the Upper Camp (?) quarter from Pet[…], son of Apollonios, grandson of Peteuris, his mother being […]tes daughter of […], of those from the city of Oxyrhynchus. In accordance with the orders concerning the scrutiny of those reaching the age for admission to the class of those from the gymnasium, to determine whether they are of this descent, my son Ammonios, whose mother is Heras daughter of Amois, has been registered, having reached the age of thirteen in the present 12th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord. Therefore, presenting myself for his scrutiny, I declare that in the scrutiny of those from the gymnasium held in the 5th year of the deified Vespasian by Soutorios Sosibios, former strategos, and Nikandros, then royal scribe, and the other proper officials, my father was scrutinized in the quarter of the Gymnasium Street, according to the proofs he submitted that his grandfather Eubion son of Ptollion is in the list of the 34th year of the deified Caesar; [and that I reached] the age of thirteen in the 1st year of the deified Trajan […] the proofs […] of the mother […] [verso] [… lines lost …] […]nios […] Upper Camp

Epikrisis was an official examination of status; membership of the gymnasium class required descent from those registered in the list of 4/5 AD (year 34 of Augustus). Upper Camp (Ano Paremboles) is a city quarter of Oxyrhynchus.

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 Epicrisis). 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.oxy.46.3276

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 148 - 149 · Oxyrhynchos

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