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Registration of a child of gymnasial status at Oxyrhynchus TM 21779OxyrhynchusA.D. 209

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A sworn declaration to the district scribe of Oxyrhynchus by Zoilos and the house-owner Apollonarion, asking that Zoilos' son Horeion, aged three years and five months, be registered for the first time at Apollonarion's house in the Plateia quarter. The boy is recorded as belonging to the privileged gymnasial class paying 12-drachma poll tax. Dated 5 January 209.

In English machine translation

To Syrion, amphodogrammateus of the 3rd tribe, from Apollonarion daughter of Harpalos, her mother being Sarapias, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, with her guardian Charmos son of Pauseiras, mother […], and from Zoilos son of Zoilos son of Apollonios, his mother being Claudia daughter of Theon, from the same city. We wish that there be registered for the first time, from now on, at the part of a house belonging to me, Apollonarion, in the Plateia quarter, my, Zoilos', legitimate son Horeion, his mother being Heras daughter of Apollonios, assessed at 12 drachmas, of gymnasial descent, being in the present 17th year three years and five months old. Therefore we submit this memorandum as is proper, and we swear by the fortune of our lords the Emperors Severus and Antoninus and Geta Caesar, Augusti, that we have not lied. Year 17 of the Emperors Caesars Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus Maximus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, Tybi 10.

The amphodogrammateus was the scribe responsible for a city quarter's records. 'Twelve-drachma' and 'from the gymnasium' mark the boy's privileged status, with a reduced poll-tax rate and descent from the gymnasial class.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Registration of a Child). 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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Registration of a child

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE47463 · A.D. 209 · Oxyrhynchus

A request to an amphodogrammateus of the city for the registration of a boy aged three years and five months. The document is to be referred to the category of the notifications of birth, of which several examples from the Fayum have been published. ThereThere are, however, consi…

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p.oxy.10.1267

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 5. Jan. 209 · Oxyrhynchos

Συρίωνι ἀμφοδογραμματεῖ γ φυλῆς παρὰ Ἀπολλωναρίου Ἁρπάλου μητρὸς Σαραπιάδος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως μετὰ κυρίου Χάρμου Παυσειρᾶτος μητρὸς καὶ παρὰ Ζωίλου Ζωίλου τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου μητρὸς Κλαυδίας Θέωνος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. βουλόμεθα πρώτως ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν ἀναγραφῆναι ἐπὶ τοῦ ὑπάρχοντος ἐμ…