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Application by Aurelius Sarapion to receive the grain dole TM 45216OxyrhynchosAnfang 271

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Aurelius Sarapion of Oxyrhynchus applies to the official Calpurnius Horion to be admitted to the city's free grain distribution. He had been scrutinized and registered in the Hermaios quarter in Gallienus' 13th year but was away when the eligible men were called, and now asks to share in the dole like his peers. Written at Oxyrhynchus early in AD 271.

In English machine translation

To Calpurnius Horion, the most excellent hypomnematographos, from Aurelius Sarapion son of […] son of Ptolemaios, his mother being Thaesis, from the glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites. Having reached the qualifying age and been approved by scrutiny in the Hermaios quarter in year 13 of the reign of Gallienus, and having been entered in the list submitted by the phylarch of the aforesaid quarter, I happened to be away from home at the public calling of those like me that took place then. Now that I have returned, I report myself and ask that I too share in the gift of the grain dole on an equal basis with those like me, in accordance with what was decided by the most excellent council. Farewell. Year […] of Imperator Caesar Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Pius Felix Augustus […] […]

The hypomnematographos was a senior civic official who administered the Oxyrhynchite grain dole (sitêresion). Year 13 of Gallienus corresponds to AD 265/266.

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.

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p.oxy.40.2903

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

Καλπουρνίῳ Ὡρίωνι τῷ κρατίστῳ ὑπομνηματογράφῳ παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Σαραπίωνος […]τοῦ Πτολεμαίου μητρὸς Θαήσιος ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως. προσβὰς καὶ ἐπικριθεὶς ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Ἑρμαίου τῷ ιγ ἔτει τῆς Γαλλιηνοῦ βασιλείας ταγείς τε διὰ τοῦ ἐπιδοθέντος ὑπὸ τοῦ τοῦ προκειμένου ἀμφόδου…