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Notification of the death of a minor grandson, Kastor TM 11888Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)27. Nov. - 26. Dez. 108

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A death notification addressed to Theon and Dioskourides, scribes of the metropolis, by Soterichos son of Kastor, reporting that his underage grandson Kastor, son of Dionysios, died in Phaophi of Trajan's 12th year and asking that he be registered among the deceased. It was filed at Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) in the Fayum in Choiak of AD 108.

In English machine translation

To Theon and Dioskourides, scribes of the metropolis, from Soterichos son of Kastor, grandson of Soterichos, his mother being Herais daughter of Dionysios, one of those from the metropolis, registered in the quarter of the Bithynians and Other Places. The son of my son Dionysios, Kastor, his mother being Herois daughter of Herakleides, a minor, registered in the aforesaid quarter, died in the month of Phaophi of the present twelfth year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus. I ask that he be entered among the deceased. Filed with the scribes of the metropolis concerning the death of Kastor. Year 12 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, […] Choiak […]

Such notices allowed the deceased to be struck from the registers, ending liability for poll tax and other personal charges. The 'quarter of the Bithynians and Other Places' is a named district (amphodon) of the Arsinoite metropolis.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Denuncia di morte). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 27. Nov. - 26. Dez. 108 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

Θέωνι καὶ Διοσκουρίδη γραμματεῦσι μητροπόλεως, παρὰ Σωτηρίχου τοῦ Κάστορος τοῦ Σωτηρίχου μητρὸς Ἡραΐδος τῆς Διονυσίου, τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως ἀναγραφομένου ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Βιθυνῶν καὶ ἄλλων τόπων. ὁ τοῦ υἱοῦ μου Διονυσίου υἱὸς Κάστωρ μητρὸς Ἡρωίδος τῆς Ἡρακλείδου, ἀφῆλιξ, ἀναγεγραμμ…