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Application to register sons as twelve-drachma payers of gymnasial status TM 16016Oxyrhynchos

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Application by Aurelius Neilos of Oxyrhynchus to the local systatai (registration officials) to enrol for the first time his sons by his late wife Aurelia Artemidora in his own city quarter, as privileged twelve-drachma payers of gymnasial descent. It ends with the customary Roman oath and a regnal-year date of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] To the board of the systatai of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites for the current 11th and 10th and 3rd year, through one of them, Aurelius Horion son of Theon, from Aurelius Neilos also called […], son of Herakleianos also called Sarapas, his mother being Didyme also called Demetria, from the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites. I wish to register for the first time, in the quarter of the Lycians' Camp in which I myself am registered, the sons born to me by my former wife, now deceased, Aurelia Artemidora, daughter of Besarion also called […], her mother being Didyme also called Demetria, (as) twelve-drachma (payers) of gymnasial status: Herakleianos also called Sarapas […] […] [Fragment B] […] […] through the list of minors submitted by you, in the class of those of the same age, as is proper, and I swear the oath customary among Romans that I have not lied. Year 11 and 10 of our lords the emperors Diocletian and Maximian and year 3 of our lords Constantius and Maximian, the most noble Caesars, Pious, Fortunate Augusti, Epeiph 1(?) […] […] […]

The systatai were municipal officials responsible for registers; 'twelve-drachma' refers to the reduced poll-tax rate of the privileged metropolitan class. The regnal years correspond to AD 295.

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 Register Children). 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.43.3137

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