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Application to the logistes for the opening of a will TM 22122Oxyrhynchos307

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Aurelius Theonas, a victor in sacred games, applies to the logistes (city curator) of Oxyrhynchus, Aurelius Seuthes also called Horion, to have a sealed will opened. Dionysios also called Harpokras had deposited it with him a few months before his death. The application dates to AD 307.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the consulship of our lords the emperors Severus Augustus and Maximinus the most noble Caesar. To Aurelius Seuthes also called Horion, logistes, from Aurelius Theonas son of Diodoros, from the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, Hieronikes and paradoxos. Since a few months ago Dionysios also called Harpokras, son of Heras, from the same city, while still living, deposited with me a sealed document, on the understanding that, if he should depart this life, it should be brought for opening and his wishes made known; now that he has passed from among men on the … of Phaophi (?), I bring it forward and ask that it be opened, so that its contents may be made known. Year 1[…] of our lords Maximianus and Severus […] […] [verso]

Hieronikes and paradoxos are honorific titles of a victor in sacred games. The month name of the testator's death is only partly preserved (Pha[…]), so it could be Phaophi or Phamenoth.)

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for the Opening of a Will). 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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p.oxy.63.4354

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 307 · Oxyrhynchos

[r] ἐπὶ ὑπάτων τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν αὐτοκρατόρων Σευήρου Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Μαξιμίνου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου Καίσαρος. Αὐρηλίῳ Σεύθει τῷ καὶ Ὡρίωνι λογιστῆι παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Θεωνᾶ Διοδώρου απὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως Ἱερονίκου παραδόξου. ἐπειδὴ πρὸ μηνω̈ν τούτων ὀλίγων Διονύσ…