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Extract from the epikrisis register of the prefect Sempronius Liberalis TM 9343Arsinoites, Ägypten155 - 159

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Extract from the official register of examinations (epikrisis) held under Marcus Sempronius Liberalis, prefect of Egypt, in the reign of Antoninus Pius, recording veterans and others who proved their status. A veteran named Saturninus, wishing to stay in the Arsinoite nome, produced a bronze diploma copied from a stele in Rome showing his honourable discharge.

In English machine translation

[From the roll of examinations (epikriseis) of Marcus Sempr]onius Liberalis, former [prefect, whose heading (reads): the undersig]ned veterans [and] […] [and slav]es and others presented themselves [for examination by Marcus Sempro]nius Liberalis, pre[fect of Egypt, through Severus, in] Mecheir and Phamenoth [and Pharmouthi of the] […] [year] [of Imperator] Caesar Titus Aelius [Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pi]us. The [documents] that they sub[mitted to the aforementioned Sev]erus, prefect of the coh[ort] […] are set beside [each na]me, to which […] […] [Ma]nlius Severus […] by order of the most illust[rious prefect Marcus Sempronius Li]beralis, roll 1, […] [S]aturninus, wish[ing to reside temporarily] in the Arsino[ite] nome, [Satu]rninus [showed] a bronze tablet, a cop[y of a bronze stele set] up in Rome, by which [it was shown that he had serv]ed and been honourably dischar[ged] […] on the 6th day before the Kalends of August […] […] [… ? lines lost …]

Epikrisis was the official examination verifying a person's legal status, here veterans' privileges; the bronze tablet is a military discharge diploma. Much of the text is editorial restoration based on parallel documents.</br>

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 · 155 - 159 · Arsinoites, Ägypten

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