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p.oxy.65.4478
Notification of Death via HGV-meta
Notification of the death of Theon to the city scribes of Oxyrhynchus. A notification of death addressed to the city scribes of Oxyrhynchus by Nikias son of Theon, reporting that his father Theon, registered in the Temgenouthis quarter, died the previous year and asking that his name be entered among the deceased. It is sworn by the emperor Vespasian and dated 15 December AD 74. machine translation
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- Notification of Death HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos15. Dez. 74
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Διογένει καὶ Ἀπολλοφάνει γραμματεῦσι Ὀξυρύγχων
πόλεως
παρὰ Νικίου τοῦ Θέωνος τῶν
ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως.
ὁ σημαινόμενός μου πατὴρ
Θέων Νικίωνος ἀπογραφόμενος ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Τεμγενούθεως ἐτελεύτησεν
τῷ διεληλυθότι ἔτει· διὸ
ἀξιῶ ἀναγράψεσθαι
τοῦτον ἐν τοῖς τετελευτηκόσι ὡς ἐπὶ τῶν
ὁμοίων καὶ ὀμνύω
Αὐτοκράτορα Καίσαρα
Οὐεσπασιανὸν Σεβαστὸν
ἀληθῆ εἶναι τὰ προγεγραμμένα.
Διογένης σεσημείωμαι. ἔτους ἑβδόμου
Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος
Οὐεσπασιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ,
Χοίακ ιθ.Translations (1)
To Diogenes and Apollophanes, scribes of the city of Oxyrhynchus,
from Nikias son of Theon, of those from the city of Oxyrhynchus.
My aforementioned (?) father Theon son of Nikion, registered in the Temgenouthis quarter, died in the past year; therefore I ask that he be recorded among the deceased, as is done in similar cases, and I swear by Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus that the foregoing statements are true.
(2nd hand) I, Diogenes, have signed.
(1st hand?) Year 7 of Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus, Choiak 19.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 78577 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;65;4478 tier-1
- HGV-Text 78577 tier-1
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