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Application from Aurelius Didymos son of Hermias, of the Heroon quarter of Oxyrhynchus, to Aurelius Ploution, secretary of the grain dole. He complains that the quarter's phylarch left him out of the dole lists and asks to be included. The end of the text is lost.
The sitêresion was the public grain distribution to registered citizens of Oxyrhynchus in the later 3rd century AD. The phylarch was the official of a city quarter who drew up its lists of eligible recipients.
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.
… α… εξε…[…] Αὐρηλίῳ Πλουτίωνι γραμματεῖ τοῦ σιτηρεσίου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Διδύμου Ἑρμίου μητρὸς Θαήσιος ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. ἀναγραφόμενος ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Ἡρῴου ἐφʼ οὗ καὶ ἐλειτούργησα ἐπεὶ παρείθην ὑπὸ τοῦ τοῦ ἀμφόδου φυλάρχου ἐν τοῖς ἐπιδοθεῖσι ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ βιβλίοις τοῦ σιτηρ…
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