Notice of Death
Accouncement of death sent respectively to the village scribe and the scribes of the metropolis by relatives of the deceased person. Follows the same general formula as that of similar documents already published. (Grenfell and Hunt)
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Notice of death of Peneouris to the village scribe of Euhemeria TM 10851Kasr-el Banat (Fayum)37 CE
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A notice of death addressed to Herakleides, village scribe of Euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome, by Mysthes son of Peneoueris, reporting that his brother Peneouris, a poll-tax payer, died in Mesore of Caligula's first year. He asks that the name be entered in the register of the deceased, in AD 37.
In English machine translation
To Herakleides, village scribe of Euhemeria,
from Mysthes son of Peneoueris, of those from Euhemeria in the division of Themistos. My brother Peneouris son of Peneouris, registered for poll tax in the aforesaid village, died in the month of Mesore of the first year of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. Therefore I submit to you this memorandum so that this name may be placed in the list of the dead according to custom.
[Mysthes son of Peneouris], about 42 years old, with a scar on the right forearm.
[…]
Year 1 of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Mesore 14.
[…] Year 1 of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Mesore 14.
Such notices removed the deceased from the poll-tax (laographia) rolls. The patronymic is spelled both Peneoueris and Peneouris in the text.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Notice of Death). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
c.pap.gr.2.1.4
Ἡρακλείδῃ κωμογραμματεῖ Εὐημερίας παρὰ Μύσθου τοῦ Πενεουήρεως τῶν ἀπὸ Εὐημερίας τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος. ὁ ἀδελφὸς Πενεοῦρις Πενεούρεως λαογραφούμενος περὶ τὴν προκειμένην κώμην τετελεύτηκεν ἐν τῷ Μεσορὴ μηνὶ τοῦ πρώτου ἔτους Γαίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ. διὸ ἐπιδίδωμί σοι τὸ …