One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20356
Latin declaration of the birth of a son, with Greek subscription TM 20356Alexandria195 - 196
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Fragment of a Latin birth declaration made at Alexandria before the prefect of Egypt, probably Marcus Ulpius Primianus, under Septimius Severus. A man living at Oxyrhynchus registered a son born to him by Ulpia Sabina; a Greek subscription followed.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] in the year […] of Imperator Caesar Lucius
[Septimius Severus Pius Perti]nax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus,
[in the month …, on day …], at Alexandria by Egypt,
[before Marcus Ulpius Pri]mianus, prefect of Egypt,
[…] declared that a son had been born to him,
[…]nus, from Ulpia Sabina, 16 (?)
[…] … residing at Oxyrhynchus.
[…] [I declare that a so]n has been born to me
[…]
Such declarations (professiones) registered the birth of children of Roman citizens; the declarant's residence at Oxyrhynchus explains where the copy was found. The numeral xvi may belong to a lost phrase, so its reference is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Latin Declaration of Birth). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
chrest.wilck.213
p.oxy.6.894
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