Training

Registration of an Apprentice
P. Mich. 81
Oxyrhynchus
This document, written in Greek, records the registration of a young apprentice weaver by his father for tax purposes. It was drawn up on October 19, 62 A.D. and signed by the tax official the next day.

To Theon, collector of the weavers' tax, from Pausiris, son of Ammonios, resident of the city of Oxyrhynchus, of the Cavalry Camp Quarter. I wish, from the present ninth year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, to apprentice my son, Pausiris, a minor, to the master weaver, Epinikos, son of Theon, of the Temple of Hermes Quarter, that he may learn the art of weaving and pay the tax paid by persons of his class. Therefore I ask that my son be registered in the class of apprentices, as is fitting. Farewell. The 9th year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Phaophi 22.

(2nd hand) I, Theon, have affixed my signature. The ninth year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Phaophi 23.