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Application for epikrisis of two sons with copies of census returns TM 9421Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)Juni - Aug. 245

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Fragment of an application for epikrisis (status examination) of two boys, Apolinarios and Ammonios, sons of Doras and Tamysta of the Hermouthiake quarter, reaching age 14. As proof the parents attach copies of earlier census declarations, including those by Aurelius Ammonios and later by his widow Thermoutharion. From Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome, AD 245.

In English machine translation

[…] and former gymnasiarch, epikrites, from Doras son of Ptolemaios son of […] and his wife Tamysta daughter of Aphrodisios, katoikos (?), […] registered in the Hermouthiake quarter. Since the sons born to us from each other, Apolinarios and Ammonios, are reaching 14 years of age in the present 3rd year of Lucius Septimius Severus, and must be examined according to the orders, we have appended the proofs of both of us; and we registered in the census of the […] year in the quarter […]bas, and in that of the 28th year in the aforesaid Hermouthiake quarter, and we registered our two sons under examination, Apolinarios and Ammonios, […] in the census of the […] year in the quarter […] […] To Aurelius Platon, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, and to Septimius Didymus, royal scribe, and […] laographoi of the 8th allotment (?), from Aurelius Ammonios son of Doras son of Ptolemaios, registered in the lists of katoikoi from the Hermouthiake quarter. I own in the quarter […] and I register myself and the residents listed below for the house-by-house census of the […] year in the quarter […], in which I also registered at the previous census; and I am the aforesaid Ammonios, aged […], scar […]; and I have a wife Thermoutharion, without father, mother Thermoutharion, aged […], scar […], registered in the Hermouthiake quarter, and the daughter born to us from each other […] […] […] To Septimius Didymus, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, and to Achilleus, royal scribe, and […] laographoi, […] from Thermoutharion, mother Thermoutharion, from the Hermouthiake quarter […] belongs to my minor son […] in the Hermouthiake quarter […], in which I also registered at the census of the […] year with my husband, and I am the aforesaid Thermoutharion, aged […], wife of the late Ammonios son of Doras […] […]

Epikrisis was the official examination confirming privileged status (here katoikoi of the metropolis) of boys at age 14. The ruler named as Lucius Septimius Severus in the text should, given the date, refer to a later emperor (Philip's reign fits 245), so the reading or regnal reference is problematic.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Aus einer Eingabe betr. ἐπίκρισις). 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 · Juni - Aug. 245 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

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