A sworn declaration for epikrisis, the status scrutiny of boys turning 13, submitted at Oxyrhynchus by the freedman Thonis alias Moros on behalf of Harpokration alias Ischyrion, son of his late friend Ischyrion. He affirms that the boy's father and maternal grandfather were registered in the privileged 12-drachma metropolitan class. It dates to Mecheir of Commodus' 29th year (AD 189).
In English machine translation
From Thonis also called Moros, freedman of Harthonis, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. In accordance with the orders concerning the scrutiny (epikrisis) of those reaching the age of 13, whether they are of metropolitan parents on both sides, of the 12-drachma class, there has been registered in the Temgenouthis quarter the son of my deceased friend Ischyrion son of Sibos also called D[…]sos, grandson of Ischyrion also called Sibos, his mother being […]sarous, from the same city, namely Harpokration also called Ischyrion, whose mother is Sarapias daughter of Sarapion, who reached the age of 13 in the past 28th year. Therefore, presenting myself for his scrutiny, I declare that he is [of the 12-drachma class and] that his father Ischyrion has died […], having been of the 12-drachma class according to the census (laographia) of the 10th year of the deified Aelius Antoninus in the same quarter, and that the father of the mother of the said boy, Sarapion son of Sarapion, has died, having formerly been of the 12-drachma class according to the census of the quarter by the amphodarchs, and
I swear by the fortune of Imperator Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord that I have not lied. Year 29 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Sarmaticus Germanicus Maximus Britannicus, Mecheir […].
I, Thonis also called Moros, freedman of Harthonis, have submitted this and sworn the oath.
Epikrisis was the scrutiny confirming entitlement to the reduced poll-tax rate of 12 drachmas for metropolitans of Oxyrhynchus. The amphodarchs were officials of the city quarters.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration for Epicrisis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.