Birth Certificate
Certificate attesting the birth of a son, named Gaius Iulius Longinus, to the veteran Gaius Iulius Niger
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Birth registration of Gaius Julius Longinus by his father Gaius Julius Niger TM 16389Antinooupolis, province of EgyptJune 4, 155 A.D.
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A birth registration from Antinoopolis in which Gaius Julius Niger, aged about 47, registers his son Gaius Julius Longinus, aged ten months and ten days, with three fellow citizens as identity witnesses. It is dated in year 18 of Antoninus Pius (June 155 AD) under the prytanis Sokrates son of Didymos and signed by an official.
In English machine translation
Gaius Julius Niger, of the Osirantinoeian tribe and the Hermaieus deme, aged about 47, on behalf of his son
Gaius Julius Longinus, 10 months and 10 days old as of the month Boedromion = Pauni 9 of the present 18th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord.
Guarantors (witnesses of identity): Gaius Domitius Clemens, of the Nerouianeian tribe and the Eirenieus deme,
Marcus Antonius Maximus, of the Nerouianeian tribe and the Propatoreios deme,
[…]os Julius Heraclanianus, of the Hadrianeian tribe and the Zeneios deme.
Year 18 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, month Boedromion = Pauni 10,
under the prytanis Sokrates son of Didymos.
[…] also called Marcellinus, I have signed.
Antinoopolis used its own Greek-style calendar alongside the Egyptian one, so dates are given as Boedromion = Pauni; citizens are identified by tribe and deme names. One record gives 4 June 155 instead of 3 June.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Geburtsanzeige). 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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