One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 16546

Declaration concerning a weaver residing in Alexandria TM 16546Oxyrhynchos78 - 79

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A sworn declaration addressed to the official of the Dromos of Thoeris quarter of Oxyrhynchus by Nikanor son of Sostratos and another person. Following orders of the prefect Aeternius Fronto about people living in Alexandria, they state that the weaver Nikanor son of Isidoros resides in Alexandria and is registered for poll-tax in their quarter in Vespasian's 11th year (AD 78/79).

In English machine translation

[…] to […], amphodarch of the Dromos of Thoeris quarter […] from Nikanor son of Sostratos and […]…[…]as, whose mother is Thaisas daughter of Ptolemaios, both of Oxyrhynchus city. In accordance with the orders of our lord the prefect Aeternius Fronto concerning those residing in Alexandria, being questioned by you about Nikanor son of Isidoros, weaver, we declare that he resides in Alexandria and is registered as liable to poll-tax in the current eleventh year of Imperator Vespasian Augustus in the same quarter of the Dromos of Thoeris, and we swear by Imperator Caesar […] [… lines lost …]

The amphodarch was the official responsible for a city quarter (amphodon). 'In homologoi' means registered among those liable to the full poll-tax (laographia).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration Concerning Residence in Alexandria). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.oxy.36.2756

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 78 - 79 · Oxyrhynchos

[…]ἀμφοδάρχῃ Δρόμου Θοήριδος[…] παρὰ Νικάνορος τοῦ Σωστράτου καὶ […]…[…]ατος μητρὸς Θαισᾶτος τῆς Πτολεμαίου ἀμφοτέρων τῶν ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. πρὸς τὰ ταχθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου ἡγεμόνος Αἰτερνίου Φρόντωνος περὶ τῶν ἐπʼ Ἀλεξανδρίας διατριβόντων ἐπερωτώμενοι ὑφʼ ὑμῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ Νικάνο…