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Application to a phylarch for registration in the poll-tax lists TM 15992Oxyrhynchos25. Juni - 24. Juli 267

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Application by Aurelius Polydeukes, son of Sarapion and Helene, an 18-year-old of Oxyrhynchus, to the phylarch Aurelius Diogenes also called Hermias, asking to be entered in the poll-tax and summary registers of the Heroon quarter, having been omitted through ignorance. It was written by another man because Polydeukes was illiterate, in the reign of Gallienus, AD 267.

In English machine translation

[recto] … 18 years old To Aurelius Diogenes also called Hermias, phylarch of the city of the Oxyrhynchites for the current 14th year, from Aurelius Polydeukes son of Sarapion, his mother being Helene, from the same city. Being of local parents and having been passed over through ignorance in the records, I declare myself and submit this memorandum, and I ask to be entered in the books kept by you, both of the poll-tax (laographia) and of the summary register, in the Heroon quarter, in which I also perform the liturgy of city guard. I am 18 years old in the current 14th year, and I swear the oath customary among Romans that I have not lied. Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus Germanicus Maximus Persicus Maximus Pius Felix Augustus, Epeiph. I, Aurelius Polydeukes, have submitted it. I, Aurelius Herakleides also called …, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters. […] Heroon […] … 18 years old […] … inhabitant (?) […] … […] … [verso] …

The phylarch was the official in charge of a tribe (phyle) of the city, responsible for its registers. Registration at age 18 is unusual, since men normally entered the poll-tax lists at 14, which explains the claim of omission through ignorance.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to a Phylarch). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. Juni - 24. Juli 267 · Oxyrhynchos

[r] …χ ἐτῶν ιη Αὐρηλίῳ Διογένει τῷ καὶ Ἑρμίᾳ φυλάρχῳ τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ιδ ἔτους παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Πολυδεύκους Σαραπίωνος μητρὸς Ἑλένης ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. γονέων ὢν ἐντοπίων καὶ διὰ λόγων παρεθεὶς κατʼ ἄγνοιαν σημαίνων ἐμαυτὸν ἐπιδίδωμι τὸ ὑπόμνημα καὶ ἀξιῶ ταγῆν…