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Copy of an official record certifying that a young Roman, Iulianus son of Marcus of the Pollian tribe, had assumed the toga pura, the plain adult toga marking his coming of age. It was drawn up at Alexandria in AD 110, copied from a register displayed in the Forum of Augustus.
The toga pura (also toga virilis) was the plain white toga a Roman boy put on when he came of age; a certified copy could serve as proof of Roman citizen status. The Forum of Augustus here is the one in Alexandria, where such records were posted.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Certificate of the assumption of the toga pura). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Certificate of the assumption of the toga pura (or toga virilis) by a young Roman man, marking the end of his childhood; this certificate might have been needed if the young man was the son of a veteran, who would have got the rights to Roman citizenship after his birth, when his…
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