Application for epikrisis of a son reaching age 13 TM 17180Herakleopolis187 - 188

Fragmentary application for epikrisis (status scrutiny) from Herakleopolis, in which a former gymnasiarch declares that his son has reached the age of 13 in year 28 of Commodus (AD 187/188) and belongs to the privileged eight-drachma metropolitan class. A second copy or related declaration addressed to Serenos, strategos of the Herakleopolite nome, follows.

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Epikrisis was the official scrutiny confirming a boy's privileged status (here the eight-drachma class of metropolitans, paying reduced poll tax) at age 13 or 14. 'Former quarter of the Two Horons' refers to a city district (amphodarchia) of Herakleopolis.

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