One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20528
Application for epikrisis of a thirteen-year-old boy TM 20528Oxyrhynchos86 - 87 (?)
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A father's application from Oxyrhynchus for the epikrisis (status examination) of his son, who had turned thirteen, to confirm that the boy was born of metropolite parents on both sides paying the reduced 12-drachma poll tax. It cites the boy's maternal grandfather Didymos, registered among the homologoi, and is sworn in Domitian's 6th year.
In English machine translation
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of Didymos, of those from Oxyrhynchus [city], in the Poimenike quarter. In accordance with the rulings concerning those who have reached the age of thirteen, whether they are of metropolite parents on both sides assessed at 12 drachmas, my son […], whose mother is Thepseis daughter of Didymos, having reached the age of thirteen in the present … year of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, was registered in the same quarter. Therefore, appearing for his selection, [I declare] that I am … […] and that his mother's father Didymos … […] was registered among the homologoi in the […] quarter, [who has] also died in the […] year of Nero; and I swear by Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus that [the above statements] are true.
Year 6 of [Imperator Caesar] Domitian [Augustus Germanicus] […]
M… [I have submitted it].
Epikrisis was the official scrutiny confirming a youth's privileged status for tax purposes; 'homologoi' denotes a registered status class with no exact English equivalent.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Selection of Boys (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.
p.oxy.2.258
[… 2 lines lost …] …νων τὴν ε…[…] Διδύμου τῶν ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Ποιμενικῆς. κατὰ τὰ κριθέντα ἐπὶ τῶν προσβεβηκότων εἰς τρεισκαιδεκαετεῖς εἰ ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων γονέων μητροπολιτῶν δωδεκαδράχμων εἰσὶν ἐτάγη ἐπὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀμφόδου ὁ υἱός μου …… ος μητρὸς Θεψεῖτος τῆς Διδύμου…