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Application by an Alexandrian resident to receive the grain dole TM 45229Oxyrhynchos270 - 271 (?)

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An application from Aurelius Apollonios, a citizen of Alexandria resident in Oxyrhynchus, to Aurelius Ploution, secretary of the grain dole, asking to be enrolled for the free grain distribution. He cites a council decision allowing Alexandrians living in the city to share in the dole and attaches a copy of his house registration.

In English machine translation

[1] [… 3 lines lost …] […] I have appended (?) [2] […] To Aurelius Ploution, secretary of the grain dole, from Aurelius Apollonios also called Nemesi[…], son of […] Sarapion, and however I am styled. Being an Alexandrian and having a domestic house […] here in the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, and it having been resolved in the same most excellent council here that the Alexandrians should share in the gift of grain, I myself, having my hearth in the quarter of North Dromos, submit this application, appending at the same time the copy of the hearth-registration, so that in conformity with those like me I too may share in the gift of the grain dole. Farewell. Year […] of Imperator Caesar Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Pius Felix Augustus and Julius Aurelius […] [… ? lines lost …]

The dating formula names Aurelian together with Vaballathus (Julius Aurelius Septimius Vaballathus), placing it in the period of Palmyrene control of Egypt. The 'hearth' (ephestion) refers to a registration of domestic residence, with no exact English equivalent.

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.40.2916

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

[1] [… 3 lines lost …] […]υπεταξα [2] …[…]δ Αὐρηλίωι Πλουτίωνι γραμματεῖ σιτηρεσίου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ καὶ Νεμεσι[…]… Σαραπίωνος καὶ ὡς χρηματίζω. Ἀλεξανδρεὺς τυγχάνων καὶ ἐφέστιον α…[…]…ος οἰκίαν ἐνταῦθα ἐν τῇ λαμπρᾷ καὶ λαμπροτάτῃ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει καὶ δεδογμένου ἐν τῇ …