One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28098
Extract from an epikrisis register concerning Maximus and Polydeukes TM 28098ArsinoitesEnde II - III
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Extract from the official register of an epikrisis, a status examination held under the prefect of Egypt Veturius Macrinus by the tribune Cocceius Varus in year 23 of Commodus (AD 182/3). It records the case of Maximus and Polydeukes of the Arsinoite nome, whose father submitted proof of his own earlier examination under the prefect Calvisius Statianus and sealed birth-declaration tablets for his sons.
In English machine translation
[…] of which the heading: The undersigned [veterans and Romans and] freedmen and slaves and [others came for the examination (epikrisis)] of Veturius Macrinus, [prefect of Egypt, through Cocceius] Varus, tribune [of the legion II Traiana Fortis], from Pachon until [the …] of the [present month] of year 23 of Marcus Aurelius [Commodus Antoninus Augustus]. The [documents] which they submitted [to the aforementioned] Cocceius Varus are [set beside] each [name]. [After other matters,] page 17: Of the Arsinoite [nome …] Maximus, aged […], Polydeukes, [aged …]. The father of those being examined [presented …] his own examination in [year 1… of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] carried out by Calvisius [Statianus, the former prefect], according to which he himself […] was examined from a bronze tablet, [and of those being examined] 2 [tablets] of birth declarations [dated, under seals], that of Maximus on the 5th day before […] […] Maximus […] father […]
Epikrisis was the examination verifying a person's legal status (here Roman or privileged status) for exemptions. The text itself refers to year 23 of Commodus (AD 182/3), so the copy dates after that.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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