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A death notification addressed to Chairemon, village scribe of Bakchias in the Fayum, by Taorsenouphis, acting with her full brother Kameis as guardian. She reports that her underage son Onnophris died in the month Germanikeios of Vespasian's second year (AD 70).
Germanikeios was an honorific name for the Egyptian month Pachon. Such declarations allowed the deceased to be removed from tax and census registers; the text breaks off before the request and closing.
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.
[r] Χαιρήμονι κωμογραμματεῖ Βακχιάδος παρὰ Ταορσενούφιος τῆς Ψενατύμιος μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ὁμοπατρίου καὶ ὁμομητρίου ἀδελφοῦ Καμείου τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς προκειμένης κώμης. ὁ υἱός μου Ὀννῶφρις Ψεναμούνεως τοῦ Ζωίλου ἀφῆλιξ καθεστὼς τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης ἐτελεύτησεν τῶι Γερμανικείωι μηνὶ το…
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