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Fragment of an application from a man of Oxyrhynchus, who has performed public liturgies, asking the officials to have the phylarch of his city quarter enter his name on the list of those eligible for the city's grain dole. It is dated to the first year of the emperor Claudius II, 30 December 268.
The phylarch was the official in charge of a city quarter (amphodon) who kept its registers. The 'men registered as Alexandrians' probably refers to a privileged category of residents eligible for the Oxyrhynchite corn dole.
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.
[… ? lines lost …] τ…[…] κελεύσητε τῷ φυλάρχῳ τοῦ προκειμένου ἀμφόδου καὶ τὸ ἡμέτερον ὄνομα ἐν τοῖς ἀναγορευομένοις ἄνδρασι Ἀλεξανδρέων ἐπιδοῦναι πρὸς τὸ καὶ ἐμὲ τὸν λελειτουργηκότα τῆς τοῦ σιτηρεσίου δόσεως μεταλαμβάνειν. ἔτους α Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Κλαυδίου Εὐ…
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