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Application for scrutiny of a boy for membership of the gymnasium class TM 22216Oxyrhynchites

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A father's sworn application for the scrutiny (epikrisis) of his 14-year-old son Aurelius Dioskoros for admission to the gymnasium class at Oxyrhynchus. He proves the boy's descent by citing the earlier registrations of himself and of the mother's father, grandfather and great-grandfather back to the reign of Vespasian. Dated year 3 of Severus Alexander.

In English machine translation

[…] in accordance with the orders concerning the scrutiny of those reaching the age for admission to the class of those from the gymnasium, whether they are of this descent, there was registered in the quarter […] my son […], his mother being […], who is in the present 3rd year 14 years old, having no scar, learning letters […]. Therefore, presenting myself for his scrutiny, I declare […] […] and […] was scrutinized in the Gymnasium Street quarter in accordance with the proofs he submitted, that his own father […] […] in the registers of the gymnasium in the Myrobalanos quarter, and that I too, reaching the age in the 14th year, was scrutinized in the 14th year of the deified Marcus, from the time I reached the age, and was registered […] in the quarter […] […] that the great-grandfather of my son, the father of his mother, Sarapion also called Pauseirion, died before the scrutiny of the same 5th year of Vespasian […] [and that her great-grandfather …] was registered at the scrutiny of the same 5th year of the deified Vespasian in the Heroon quarter, and that her grandfather Apollonios, reaching the age for scrutiny in the 7th year of Vespasian, was scrutinized in the Nemeseion quarter […] […] and that her father Apollonios was scrutinized in the 2nd year of the deified Aelius Antoninus in the same quarter. And I have provided [guarantors of identity for the scrutiny …] having provided […] 7 […] [And I swear by the fortune of Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander] Caesar the lord that I have not lied, that the foregoing is true, and that Aurelius Dioskoros is the natural [son] of me and of Ap[…] […] […] or may I be liable to the oath. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius Felix Augustus, Epeiph 1 […]

Epikrisis was the official scrutiny confirming a youth's privileged status; members of the gymnasium class paid reduced poll tax. The names of quarters (amphoda) such as Myrobalanos and Heroon are districts of Oxyrhynchus.

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 Membership of the Gymnasium). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.oxy.22.2345

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

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