Papyrus from Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. [original in Greek]

Copy. To Ptolemaios the royal secretary and
to Apollophanes and Diogenes the secretaries of the district
and the village, [from Pe]toseiris (son) of Petoseiris
of the city Oxyrhynchus on [Egzoeu] Street.
It is my desire,
from the present 11th year of Nero
Cla[udius Cae]sar Augustus Germanicus
Imperator (AD 64), that my son Pete
chon, who is not yet of age and is registered
on the same Egzoeu Street,
learn the coppersmith
trade from the master Herakleides
(son) of Petosorapis, coppersmith on the street
of the same name. I ask that he be registered
in the class of similar (apprentices), as is fitting.

Published in Translated Documents of Greece & Rome, vol. 6, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988