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Grant of privileges to a victorious athlete crowned at iselastic games TM 16906Oxyrhynchos192 - 193

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A fragmentary document from Oxyrhynchus concerning a victorious athlete, son of Sarapion, who won a crown at the first quinquennial iselastic games and was granted privileges, apparently relating to the office of exegetes, in return. It is dated to year 33 of Commodus (AD 192-193) and was transmitted through a certain Theodoros.

In English machine translation

[…] […] The other things […] and those of the bodies […] are most wonderful […] […] and dignity and […] […] is of the most illustrious […] having been brought up more loyal (?) […] having […] and of the legitimate […] […] among us and from there […] now brilliantly celebrated […] the first quinquennial […] […] of the iselastic […] having competed he was crowned […] […] asked from the presidents of the games […] […] we saw him repay […] for the labours previously performed […] of the exegeteship we granted him the cost (?) […] […] son of Sarapion, much richer […] having bound on these crowns […] the former prefect granted […] less, but more also elsewhere […] of the assistance from us of the […] […] obtain […] having competed […] […] through Theodoros […] Year 33 of Imperator Caesar Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus Pius Felix Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Sarmaticus Germanicus Maximus Britannicus, peacemaker of the world, Felix, invincible, the Roman Hercules […]

Iselastic games were contests whose victors were entitled to a ceremonial entry into their home city and to civic privileges. The athlete appears to have been granted a payment or exemption connected with the exegeteship, a municipal magistracy.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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.31.2611

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 192 - 193 · Oxyrhynchos

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