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Application for epikrisis of a boy into the gymnasium class TM 15745Oxyrhynchos148 - 149

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An application by Pausirion of Oxyrhynchus for the scrutiny (epikrisis) of his son Sarapion, who has turned 13, for admission to the privileged gymnasium class. He traces the family's status back through earlier scrutinies of his grandfather under Vespasian and Nero and his father's registration in the gymnasium records.

In English machine translation

[…] From Pausirion son of […] son of Aperos, his mother being Didyme, from Oxyrhynchus city. In accordance with the orders concerning the scrutiny (epikrisis) of those reaching the age for admission to the gymnasium class, whether they are of this descent, my son Sarapion, his mother being […]ria (?) daughter of Panechotes, who has reached the age of 13 in the present 12th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, was registered in the quarter of the Cavalry Camp. Therefore, presenting myself for his scrutiny, I declare that in the scrutiny held in the 5th year of the deified Vespasian by Soterios (?) Sosibios, former strategos, and Nikandros, former royal scribe, and the other proper officials, my grandfather Aperos son of Ape[…]on was scrutinized among those over age in the same quarter, in the list of those scrutinized in the 3rd and 4th years of Nero by Curtius Paulinus, tribune, and that my father, on coming of age, was entered in the […] gymnasium registers of the same quarter […] […] […]

Epikrisis was the official scrutiny of status that confirmed a youth's membership of a privileged group, here those 'from the gymnasium'. The end of the declaration 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 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.46.3279

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

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