Declaration of the death of a minor son to the village scribe of Philadelphia TM 12739Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

A declaration of death submitted to Ptolemaios, village scribe of Philadelphia, by Thenmesoeris, acting with her kinsman Petearmouthes as guardian. She reports that her son Pnepheros, a minor registered at Philadelphia, died in Phaophi of Hadrian's 14th year, and asks that he be entered in the list of the dead.

In English machine translation

Such declarations removed the dead from the poll-tax registers. As a woman, the declarant acted through a male guardian (kyrios).

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