Home › Spine › TM 22591
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22591

Ephebate certificate of Isidoros and birth registration of twins Rufus and Thaisarion TM 22591Alexandria (?)225 (?)

The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 2 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →

A certificate extract concerning Alexandrian citizen status, recording the ephebate of Isidoros son of Menelaos in the 25th year of Commodus and the registration, by him and his wife Nemesiaina, of their one-year-old twins Rufus and Thaisarion in year 12 of an emperor named Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. It probably comes from Alexandria around AD 225.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] Date of ephebate: year 25 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Sarmaticus Germanicus […] Maximus, month of Kaisareios, Mesore […]. Isidoros son of Menelaos son of […], of the Sosikosmian tribe and Althaian deme, aged […], and his wife Nemesiaina […] also called Ignatios, a citizen woman aged […], with her guardian, her father […] also called Ignatios son of Eudaimon, of the Althaian deme, aged […], of the street Arsinoe […], declaring that they live together by agreement, [registered] as their children Rufus and Thaisarion, twins aged 1 year, in accordance with the memorandum. Year 12 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus […] Germanicus Maximus […] tenth, (in the) Hadrianon, at the side of the Ptolemaion (?) […] Rufus […] […] [verso] […] ephebate of the father of Rufus

The ephebate (ephebeia) was enrolment of young men among the citizen youth, used as proof of Alexandrian citizenship. The emperor in year 12 is probably Elagabalus or Severus Alexander, given the Commodan ephebate and the date of about 225, though the titles are partly restored.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ephebeia Certificate). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.bodl.1.66

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 225 (?) · Alexandria (?)

[r] […]χρόνος ἐφηβείας ἔτους κε Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Κομμόδου Ἀντωνίνου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστοῦ Ἀρμενιακοῦ Μηδικοῦ Παρθικοῦ Σαρματικοῦ Γερμανικοῦ[…] μεγίστου μηνὸς Καισαρείου Μεσορὴ[…] Ἰσίδωρος Μενελάου τοῦ […]Σωσικόσμιος ὁ καὶ Ἀλθαιεὺς ἐτῶν[…] καὶ ἡ τούτου γυ…