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Extract from the prefect's register of veteran examinations for Sempronius Maximus TM 9017Arsinoites

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Certified copy of an extract from the prefect Marcus Petronius Honoratus's register of examinations (epikrisis) of veterans of auxiliary units and the Syrian fleet who had received Roman citizenship and marriage rights. It concerns the veteran Sempronius Maximus, who wished to reside in the Arsinoite nome and produced a bronze diploma copied from the tablet in Rome; the examination was held in year 11 of Antoninus Pius (AD 148).

In English machine translation

[…] of the Antinoites. Copy. From the roll of examinations (epikrisis) of Marcus Petronius Honoratus, prefect of Egypt, whose heading is: The veterans listed below, who served in the cavalry units (alae) and cohorts and in the Syrian fleet, some having obtained, together with children and grandchildren, others alone, Roman citizenship and the right of legal marriage with the wives whom they had at the time when citizenship was granted to them, or, if any were unmarried, with those whom they might marry thereafter, up to one wife each; and furthermore other veterans without bronze tablets who have now likewise obtained Roman citizenship alone, were examined by order of Marcus Petronius Honoratus, prefect of Egypt, through Magius Sabinus, tribune of the legion II Traiana Fortis, from Mecheir 3 to Pachon 2 of the current year 11 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius. The documents which they submitted to the aforementioned Sabinus are set beside each name. After other matters, of columns […] […] Sempronius Maximus, wishing to reside temporarily in the Arsinoite nome […] a bronze tablet copied and sealed from a bronze tablet set up in Rome, by which it was attested […] […]

Epikrisis was the official verification of status; the 'bronze tablet' is a military diploma copied from the original posted in Rome. Much of the heading is restored from parallel texts.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Arsinoites

[…] Ἀντινοέων. ἀντίγραφον. ἐκ τόμου ἐπικρίσεων Μάρκου Πετρωνίου Ὁνωράτου ἐπάρχου Αἰγύπτου, οὗ προγραφή· οἱ ὑπογεγραμμένοι οὐετρανοὶ στρατευσάμενοι ἐν εἴλαις καὶ σπείραις καὶ ἐν κλάσσῃ Συριακῇ ἔνειοι μὲν ἐπιτυχόντες σὺν τέκνοις καὶ ἐγγόνοις, ἕτεροι μόνοι τῆς Ῥωμαίων πολιτείας καὶ …