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Birth declaration for Aurelius Ammon addressed to a systates of Oxyrhynchus TM 21010Oxyrhynchos297 - 298

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Opening of a declaration of birth addressed to Aurelius Horion, a ward official (systates) of Oxyrhynchus, by Marcus Aurelius Silvanus, who asks to register for the first time his son Aurelius Ammon, born to him and his deceased wife Aurelia Tapsois. It dates to AD 297-298.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Horion son of Theon, systates of the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites for the present year 14 and year 13 and year 6, from Marcus Aurelius Silvanus son of Sarapion alias Sarapiades alias Antiochos, his mother being Tapsois, from the same city. I wish to have registered for the first time the son born to me and to my late wife Aurelia Tapsois, Aurelius Ammon […]

A systates was a local official responsible for registering inhabitants of a city quarter. The regnal years 14, 13 and 6 refer to the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian, and the Caesars Constantius and Galerius.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 297 - 298 · Oxyrhynchos

Αὐρηλίῳ Ὡρειώνει Θέωνος συστάτῃ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυνχειτῶν πόλεως τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἔτους ιδ καὶ ἔτους ιγ καὶ ἔτους ϛ παρὰ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Σιλβανοῦ Σαραπίωνος τοῦ καὶ Σαραπιάδους τοῦ καὶ Ἀντιόχου μητρὸς Ταψόϊτος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. βούλομαι πρώτως ἀναγραφῆναι τὸν γεγο…