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Application by Aurelius Dorion for enrolment in the gerousia of Oxyrhynchus TM 15980Oxyrhynchos225 - 226

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An application from Aurelius Dorion, son of Apion, aged 63, to the official in charge of the registers of the council of elders (gerousia) at Oxyrhynchus, asking to be enrolled in it. He cites his registration in the Kretikou quarter and his earlier status examination in the census of the 24th year of Caracalla, of which he attached an extract.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Didymos, former exegetes, pompagogos in office and in charge of the registers of the council of elders (gerousia) of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, from Aurelius Dorion son of Apion son of Apion, his mother being […], from Oxyrhynchus the […] and most glorious city. Being already, as of the present 5th year, 63 years of age and having the age of those maintained (?), I declare that I am registered in the Kretikou quarter and that I was examined (epikrisis) in the house-by-house census return for the 24th year of the deified Severus Antoninus in the same quarter, aged 53, the relevant part of which examination I have obtained from the public record office of the locality and have appended below; and I request, in accordance with what was approved by the most esteemed The[…] and Petronianos, to be enrolled […] […] [… lines lost …]

The gerousia was a council of elders whose members likely enjoyed privileges; the pompagogos led religious processions. The 5th year is that of Severus Alexander, and 'Severus Antoninus' is Caracalla (24th year = AD 215/16).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application to Join the Gerusia). 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.43.3101

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 225 - 226 · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρηλίῳ Διδύμῳ ἐξηγητεύσαντι ἐνάρχῳ πομπαγωγῷ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶνστεμμάτων τῆς γερουσίας τῆς Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Δωρίωνος Ἀπίωνος τοῦ Ἀπίωνος μητρὸς […]ς ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως τῆς[…]…ης καὶ λαμπρᾶς. γεγονὼς ἤδη πρὸς τὸ ἐνεστὸς ε ἔτος ἐτῶν ξγ καὶ ἔχων τὴν τῶν τρεφομένων ἡλικί…