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Application of the pancratiast Aurelius Ammon to the council of Oxyrhynchus TM 17011Oxyrhynchos27. März - 25. Apr. 289

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Application to the city council of Oxyrhynchus from Aurelius Ammon, a pancratiast and sacred-games athlete, submitted through the prytanis Aurelius Asklepiades. Ammon recalls bringing honour to his home city and, apparently planning to compete abroad, asks the council to vote on his request and issue him the relevant documents. Dated spring AD 289.

In English machine translation

D To the most excellent council of the glorious and most glorious (city) of the Oxyrhynchites […] through the most notable Aurelius Asklepiades son of Achillion […] hypomnematographos, gymnasiarch, councillor, prytanis in office of the same city, from Aurelius Ammon son of Ammon, from the same city, […] through […] life (?) of sacred victors, having practised the pancratiasts' [contest] […] having brought honour to the city that nurtured me, as is not unknown to you either […] and to go also to the places abroad, having been ordered (?) […] the […] which, if the providence of the gods assisting […] of your fortune granted (?), honour (?) […] and making this request, asking that you vote together (?) […] to issue to me the documents concerning this […] Farewell. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus and year 4 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus, Germanici Maximi […] Pii, Felices, Augusti, Pharmouthi […] I, Aurelius Ammon, submitted (this).

The pancration was a combat sport combining boxing and wrestling; 'sacred victors' (hieronikai) were winners at major games who enjoyed civic privileges. The exact request is lost in gaps.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Privileges of Athletes and Dionysiac Artists). 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 · 27. März - 25. Apr. 289 · Oxyrhynchos

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