Copy of an application by Aurelius Agathos Daimon, an illiterate Oxyrhynchite citizen who had turned 20, to the secretary of the corn dole, asking to receive the grain distribution in place of a deceased man, Antiochos alias Diogenes, from the same city quarter. It is certified by a scrutineer, a former phylarch and two identifiers, and was entered on the register in Phaophi. Dated 24 September 269 at Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
27
Copy.
To Aurelius Ploution, secretary of the corn dole,
from Aurelius Agathos Daimon son of Areios, son of Sarapion, his mother being Senpsois, from the illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites.
Being an Oxyrhynchite, registered by scrutiny in the Dromos Thoeridos quarter, and having reached the age of 20 in the present year 2, I enter myself by lot in place of Antiochos alias Diogenes son of Antiochos, his mother being Theodora, of the same quarter, deceased, and I ask, showing myself to be a citizen, to share in the distribution of the corn dole.
Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Claudius Pius Felix Augustus, Thoth 27.
I, Aurelius Agathos Daimon son of Areios, have submitted this. I, Aurelius Apollonios, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters.
Aurelius Serenos, scrutineer: this is the person scrutinized, who also answered when his name was called.
Aurelius Didymos, former phylarch: it is so, and he is the aforementioned person, who also answered when his name was called.
Aurelius Theon, identifier: this is the person examined, whom I also recognize.
Aurelius Saras alias Isidoros, identifier: this is the person examined, whom I also recognize.
Entered in year 2, Phaophi.
Of Dromos Thoeridos.
The Oxyrhynchus corn dole (sitēresion) was a monthly grain distribution to a fixed number of registered citizens; vacancies left by deaths were filled by lot. The number 27 at the top is probably the item number in the file of applications.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Applications to Receive the Dole). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.