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An oath declaration by Aurelius Apion of Oxyrhynchus, addressed to the strategos Aurelius Dios also called Pertinax, accepting his nomination by the district scribe as collector of the money taxes of the metropolis for year 2. It dates to AD 244-245 under Philip the Arab, and the rest of the oath is lost.
The amphodogrammateus was the scribe of a city quarter (amphodon), responsible for nominating people for compulsory public services. Tax collection was a liturgy, an obligatory duty imposed on qualified citizens.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration by a Tax - Collector). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἀργυρικὰ μητροπόλεως. Αὐρηλίῳ Δίῳ τῷ καὶ Περτίνακι στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου Αὐρήλιος Ἀπίων Διονυσίου μητρὸς Ταρμάλοιος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. εἰσδοθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀμφοδογραμματέως τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος β ἔτους εἰς πρακτορείαν ἀργυρικῶν μητροπόλεως τοῦ αὐτοῦ β ἔτους, ὀμνύω τὴν Μάρκου Ἰουλίου Φιλί…
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