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Application to replace a deceased recipient of the grain dole TM 16620Oxyrhynchos28. Okt. - 26. Nov. 270

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Part of an application from Oxyrhynchus asking to be enrolled in the public grain distribution in place of a deceased recipient from the same city quarter, citing a resolution of the town council. Official notes follow, ordering the applicant's reinstatement since he had performed a liturgy and was omitted by mistake, and a former phylarch confirms this from the records. Dated to the month Hathyr, AD 270.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] of necessity, submitting this petition, I ask that I be enrolled in place of […], who was on the same quarter and has died, so that I may be able to share in the gift of grain equally with my peers, in accordance with what was resolved by the most excellent council. In the consulship of the current year, Hathyr […]. (2nd hand) Having performed a liturgy, he was passed over through ignorance. Let him be entered again in his proper class, having been taken up […] […] (3rd hand) Aurelius Askl[…], former phylarch: the above-mentioned performed the liturgy, and so it stands in the record office. [… lines lost …]

The grain dole (sitēresion) at Oxyrhynchus was a monthly free grain distribution to registered citizens; a phylarch was an official responsible for a city tribe or quarter. The applicant's predecessor's name is lost in the gap.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Applications to Receive the Dole). 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 · 28. Okt. - 26. Nov. 270 · Oxyrhynchos

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] ἀναγκαίως τῶνδε τῶν βιβλίων ἐπίδοσιν ποιούμενος ἀξιῶ ταγῆναί με ἀντί ὄντος ἐπὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀμφόδου τετελευτηκότος πρὸς τὸ δύνασθαί με μετασχεῖν τῆς τοῦ σίτου δωρεᾶς κατʼ ἴσον τῶν ὁμοίων μου κατὰ τὰ δόξαντα τῇ κρατίστῃ βουλῇ. ἐπὶ ὑπάτων τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἔτους…