Declaration of two boys reaching age 14 for enrolment as god-bearers of Thoeris TM 19260Oxyrhynchos165 - 166

A declaration addressed to Dionysios, royal scribe and acting strategos, by Thonis the elder, a god-bearer of the goddess Thoeris at Oxyrhynchus. He reports that his son and his late brother's son have both turned fourteen in the sixth year of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus and should be enrolled, with payment of the entry fee for the god-bearer's office. It dates to AD 165-166.

In English machine translation

A theagos (god-bearer) carried the image of the deity in processions; the office was hereditary and entry required a fee (eiskritikon). The end of the document is lost.

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