Notification of Death
Declaration addressed by Papontos to the komogrammateus of Psenyris, giving him notice of the death of Papeeus son of Papontos
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12032
Notification of the death of a minor son at Psenyris TM 12032Psenyris, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt126 A.D.
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A notification of death addressed to the village scribe of Psenyris in the Arsinoite nome by Papontos son of Paseis. He reports that his underage son Papeeus died in Epeiph of Hadrian's 10th year (AD 126) and asks that he be entered in the register of the dead.
In English machine translation
[…] village scribe of Psenyris,
from Papontos son of Paseis, son of Papontos, his mother being Apia, of those from the aforementioned village of Psenyris. My son Papeeus, his mother being […]is, a minor, registered in the aforementioned village, died in the month of Epeiph of the present 10th year of Hadrian Caesar the lord. Therefore I submit (this notice) so that he may be placed in the list of the deceased.
Such death notices were submitted so that the deceased would be removed from the tax rolls. The name of the boy's mother is only partly preserved.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Notification 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.2.1.28
[…] κωμογραμματεῖ Ψενύρεως παρὰΠαποντῶτος τοῦ Πάσειτος τοῦ Παποντῶτος μητρὸς Ἀπίας τῶν ἀπὸ τῆςπροκειμένης κώμης Ψενύρεως. ὁ υἱός μου Παπεεῦς μητρὸς […]ιτος ἀφήλικος ἀναγεγραμμένος ἐπὶ τῆς προκειμένης κώμης ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ Ἐπεὶπ μηνὶ τοῦἐνεστῶτος ι ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίο…