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Application for enrolment in the grain dole TM 45210Oxyrhynchos268 - 270

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Fragment of an application from Oxyrhynchus to be enrolled among the recipients of the grain dole, in place of a certain Silvanus, by someone who had obtained a place by lot. It dates to AD 268-270.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] of the illustrious [...] [...] registered [...] [...] having been scrutinized [...] [...] ... [...] [...] ... [...] [...] having obtained by lot the place [...] [...] in place of Silvanus [...] [...] Aphynchis [...] [...] of the same quarter [...] [...] to be enrolled [...] [...] of the grain dole [...] [...] Caesar Marcus [...] [...]

The grain dole (siteresion) was a free monthly grain distribution to a limited number of registered citizens of Oxyrhynchus; places freed by death were filled by lot. Only the middle of the document survives.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application 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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.40.2897

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

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