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Request to correct an error in the register of minors TM 15975Oxyrhynchos223 - 224

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A petition from Aurelius Diogenes alias Pauseirion of Oxyrhynchus to the district scribe Aurelius Dionysios, asking that a clerical error be corrected in the register of minors, where his thirteen-year-old son Heras was recorded with the wrong mother's name and father's details. It dates to AD 223-224.

In English machine translation

[recto] To Aurelius Dionysios, amphodogrammateus (district scribe) of the 6th tribe, 3rd cycle, from Aurelius Diogenes also called Pauseirion, son of Diogenes son of Amois, his mother being Tathonas, from Oxyrhynchus city. Since I have learned that my son Heras, whose mother is Tauris, my full sister, has been entered by a scribal error in the list of minors submitted in the past year 2, in the rank of thirteen-year-olds, as Heras son of Diogenes, mother Tauseiris, full sister of the father, (twelve-drachma class) from the gymnasium, whereas it should be Heras son of Diogenes also called Pauseirion son of Diogenes, mother Tauris, full sister of the father, therefore I submit the request […] […] [verso] reaching (?) into […]

The boy's mother is described as the father's full sister, reflecting sibling marriage in Roman Egypt. The 'twelve-drachma' and 'gymnasium' terms refer to privileged tax-status classes of the city population.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Complaint of an Error in Records). 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.43.3096

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 223 - 224 · Oxyrhynchos

[r] Αὐρηλίῳ Διονυσίῳ ἀμφοδογραμματεῖ ϛ φυλῆς γ περιόδου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Διογένους τοῦ καὶ Παυσειρίωνος Διογένους τοῦ Ἀμόιτος μητρὸς Ταθωνᾶτος ἀπὸ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. ἐπειδὴ ἔμαθον τὸν υἱόν μου Ἡρᾶν μητρὸς Ταύριος ὁμογνησίας ἀδελφῆς ἐν τῇ καταχωρισθείσῃ τῷ διελθόντι β ἔτει γραφῇ ἀφηλί…