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Notification to the archive keepers of a ruling on immunity from liturgies TM 21794Oxyrhynchos4. März 272

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Julius Theon, also called Zoilos, of Oxyrhynchus submits to the keepers of the public archives a copy of a ruling by the former dioiketes Andromachos confirming his legal immunity from public duties, asking that it be entered in the registers under his name. It is dated 4 March 272, under the joint reckoning of Aurelian and Vaballathus.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius […] also called Apollonios, former gymnasiarch of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, and his colleague, both keepers of the archives, from Julius Theon also called Zoilos, son of Gaius Julius Alexander, of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites. Bringing to you a copy of the memorandum made upon my petition before the most excellent former dioiketes Andromachos concerning the immunity belonging to me by the laws, I submit the memorandum in duplicate, so that the proper entry may be made in the registers kept by you under our name, so that the rights of the eupaideia which belong to me may be clear to all; and I swear the oath customary among Romans that I have not lied. Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Pius Felix Augustus and year 5 of Julius Aurelius Septimius Vaballathus Athenodorus, the most illustrious king, consul, imperator, general of the Romans, Phamenoth 8.

Eupaideia ('good education') refers to the privilege, here of a man of letters or of a father of educated children, granting exemption (asylia) from compulsory public services. The dating formula reflects the brief period when Palmyrene Vaballathus was recognized in Egypt alongside Aurelian.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Notification of Inviolability). 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 · 4. März 272 · Oxyrhynchos

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