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Application to be restored to the list of corn dole recipients TM 45231Oxyrhynchos

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Application from Aurelius Sarapammon, also called Alexandros, to the hypomnematographos Marcus Aurelius Achilleus and the council's commissioners for the corn dole at Oxyrhynchus. He complains that the phylarch of his quarter, Amyntas, mistakenly left his name off the lists of recipients and asks to be added.

In English machine translation

To Marcus Aurelius Achilleus also called Ammonios, the most excellent hypomnematographos, and to those chosen by the most excellent council to carry out the distribution of the corn dole, from Aurelius Sarapammon […] also called Alexandros […]. I was registered in the quarter of Temiouthis, in which I perform liturgies, and I was approved by scrutiny in the […] year. But now, in the lists submitted for the corn dole, the phylarch of our quarter, Amyntas, has omitted my name by mistake. For this reason I ask, in accordance with the goodwill that belongs to you, that you order me to be placed among those who receive the corn dole, so that I too may share in the common benefaction. Farewell.

The corn dole (sitηresion) was a third-century free grain distribution to registered citizens of Oxyrhynchus; the hypomnematographos was a senior civic official. Much of the right side is restored by the editor from parallel applications.

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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.40.2918

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

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