Power of attorney for a freedman to petition the prefect in Alexandria TM 21296Oxyrhynchos7. Aug. 161

[…] of this let a copy be issued. Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus, month Kaisareios 14, at Oxyrhynchus city in the Thebaid. Sarapion and Eudaimon, both sons of Sarapion son of Ammonios, their mother being Nikarion, and their cousin Ammonios son of Pausanias son of Ammonios, his mother being Emsiouesis, all three former gymnasiarchs of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, and the other two of them, Sarapion and Eudaimon, having been high priests of the lords Augusti and of all the gods, acknowledge to Sarapion, freedman of Sarapion son of Sarapion son of Phanias, by adoption son of Kleoucharos, from the same city, in the street, that, since those making the acknowledgement are unable at present to sail down to Alexandria because of the harvest now coming on and for the sake of other distractions of daily life, they have appointed by this agreement the aforementioned Sarapion, freedman of Sarapion, to sail down to Alexandria and to petition the most illustrious prefect Volusius Maecianus, or also whatever other judge he himself approves, concerning the matter brought before the same most illustrious prefect at the recent assize of the nome, of the kind […] […]