Application of Aurelius Melas to receive the Oxyrhynchus grain dole TM 45211Oxyrhynchos270 - 271

[recto, column 1] … [recto, column 2] Scrutinized, 18. To Calpurnius Horion, the most excellent hypomnematographus, councillor of the most glorious city of the Alexandrians, from Aurelius Melas son of Herakleides son of Ammonios alias Diogenes, his mother being Thaesis, from the glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites. Having come of age and been scrutinized in the Myrobalanos quarter, and having been entered in the man-by-man lists submitted by the phylarch for the sacred grain dole, but when I was placed in the examination I was unable to produce the proofs of my descent. Now, of necessity, producing the token of the scrutiny and the proofs of descent, I submit these documents and ask that I too share in the gift of grain, having been scrutinized in the 15th year, in accordance with the decisions of the most excellent council, on an equal footing with those in the same position as me. Farewell. Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Pius Felix Augustus and of Julius Aurelius Septimius Vaballathus Athenodorus, the most glorious king, consul, imperator, general of the Romans, […] […] I, Aurelius Melas son of Herakleides, have submitted this. I, Aurelius […], wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters. [… lines lost …] [verso] …