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Application of Aurelius Serenos for his athlete's pension, with accounting notes TM 22957Hermopolis (Hermopolites, Ägypten)Jan. - Febr. 268

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Application by Aurelius Serenos, a victor in sacred games, for payment of his athlete's pension of 200 drachmas a month for ten months, totalling 2,000 silver drachmas, dated Mecheir of Gallienus' 15th year (AD 268) at Hermopolis. Further short notes record calculations and a payment on account, and a name, Hermantinoos also called Leon.

In English machine translation

[text i] [… lines lost …] [for the] (period) from Phamenoth of the past 14th year until Choiak [of the] present 15th year, [10 months, at] 200 drachmas per month, the total of 2,000 drachmas of silver, [makes] 2,000 drachmas of silver. Year 15 of Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus Germanicus Maximus Persicus Maximus Pius Felix Augustus, Mecheir. I, Aurelius Serenos, victor in sacred games, make the request as stated above. [text ii] From Thoth, [at 4] months (?), totalling 54 drachmas of silver, makes 216. [text iii] From Thoth to Mecheir, there was given to you, from 260 drachmas, on account 97 drachmas 2 obols. [text iv] Hermantinoos also called Leon […] [… 7 lines lost …]

A hieronikes was a victor in 'sacred' games, entitled to a civic pension (opsonion) from his home city. The figures in texts ii and iii are partly restored and their relation to the main request is unclear.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Demande de versement d'une pension d'athlète). 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 · Jan. - Febr. 268 · Hermopolis (Hermopolites, Ägypten)

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