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Notification of the death of a weaver to the royal scribe TM 128754Narmuthis (Arsinoites)23. Aug. 135

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A death notice addressed to Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, by Panesneus of Narmouthis, reporting that his son, a weaver registered for poll tax, died in Mesore of Hadrian's 19th year and asking that he be struck from the tax lists. The royal scribe's instruction to the village scribe to verify and act follows, dated 23 August AD 135.

In English machine translation

To Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, division of Polemon, from Panesneus son of Peneoueris, grandson of Panesneus, his mother being Th[…], from the village of Narmouthis in the same division. My son […], his mother being Taakeis (?), a weaver registered for poll tax in the same village, died in the present month Mesore of the current 19th year of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus. Therefore I ask that he be entered among the dead. To the village scribe: If he has died, carry out what follows, knowing that you will be held to account if anything is done improperly. Year 19 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Mesore 30. I, Ptolemaios, have signed.

Removing the deceased from the poll-tax (laographia) register was the practical purpose of such declarations. The son's name is lost.

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 décés). 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 · 23. Aug. 135 · Narmuthis (Arsinoites)

Πτολεμαίῳ βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοΐτου Πολέμωνος μερίδος. παρὰ Πανεσνεῦτος τοῦ Πενεουήριος τοῦ Πανεσνέως μητρὸς Θ…[…]…[…]… ἀπὸ κώμης Ναρμούθεως τῆς αὐτῆς μερίδος. ὁ υἱὸς μου[…]…ς μητρὸς Ταακήους, γέρδιος λαογραφούμενος ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης, ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ ἐνεστῶτι μηνὶ Μεσορὴ τοῦ…