(Translation: from P.Oxy. 10) [... I declare that I was selected at the selection which took place under] ..., late
strategus and Pamphilus, late basilicogrammateus, and the other proper officials in
the wth year of the deified Vespasian in accordance with the proofs adduced in his
lifetime by my aforesaid father Dionysius also called Amois, son of Psammis son of
Ballarus, who was a guard of the palaestra, that his father Psammis son of Ballarus
was in the list made in the 34th year of the deified Caesar of those ... in the gymnasium
; and I myself ever since I came up for selection was included in al the lists of
the gymnasium ; and I declare that Thermouthion the mother of my son was married to
me in the and year of Domitian by an autograph contract which was also made public
through the record-office in the following 3rd year, while her father Plution son
of Plutarchus, registered at the South Square quarter, was in the same fifth year
of the deified Vespasian placed by Sutorius Sosibius, then strategus, and Nicander,
then basilicogrammateus, and the other proper officials in the class of persons selected
by Quintius (?) Paulinus; and I swear by the Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajanus Augustus
Germanicus that I have made no false statement, and that Plution is the son of myself
and Thermouthion by birth and not by adoption nor is he supposititious, and that I
have not availed myself of credentials belonging to others or identity of names; otherwise
may I be liable to the consequences of the oath. The 1st year of the Emperor Caesar
Nerva Trajanus Augustus Germanicus, Pauni 16. I, Psammis son of Dionysius also called
Amois, have presented the memorandum and sworn the oath.