One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31441

Fragment mentioning an Olympic victor and a village scribe TM 31441OxyrhynchosIII

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Fragment of a 3rd-century AD document from Oxyrhynchus naming a Marcus Aurelius and referring to athletic honours (multiple victories, victory in the circuit of games, an Olympic victor). It also mentions submissions to authorities and a village scribe, but the overall purpose cannot be recovered.

In English machine translation

[…] pleistonikes (?) […] […] Marcus Aurelius […] […]alapos and […] […] (victor) of the circuit (periodos) […] […] in the most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites […] […] having submitted […] […] Olympic victor […] […] Oxyrhynchite […] […] having submitted the […] […] village scribe […] […] Oxyrhynchite […] […] according to the […] […] Masculinus (?) […]

Pleistonikes (victor many times) and periodonikes (victor in all games of the circuit) were honorific titles of star athletes; such men often appear in Oxyrhynchite documents about privileges. The genre is a guess from the official vocabulary.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Miscellaneous papyri). 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.fuad.i.univ.40

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

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