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Opening of an application from Aurelius Apis, son of Isidoros, of Oxyrhynchus, to Aurelius Didymos, the official keeping the membership rolls of the city's gerousia (council of elders). Responding to a public notice, he apparently applies for enrolment; the rest is lost.
The gerousia was an elite body of elders in Roman Egyptian cities; the identification as an application for membership is likely but not certain since the text breaks off. Pompagogos was a magistrate in charge of religious processions.
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.
[r] Αὐρηλίῳ Διδύμῳ ἐξηγητεύσαντι ἐνάρχῳ πομπαγωγῷ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν στεμμάτων τῆς γερουσίας τῆς Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἄπει Ἰσιδώρου τοῦ Σαραπίωνος μητρὸς Ἀλεξοῦτος ἀπὸ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. ἐκ τῶν προτεθέντων ὑπὸ σοῦ γραμμάτων ἀκολούθως οἷς ἐπέστειλ…ν τ…[…]… […]… Αὐρήλιος Πετρω…
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