Notification of death of a grandson to the village scribe of Bakchias TM 13390Bakchias (Arsinoites)87

A notification of death addressed to Diodoros, village scribe of Bakchias in the Arsinoite nome, by Alexamos son of Hareotes, reporting that his grandson Demetris, a registered poll-tax payer of the village, died in Mecheir of Domitian's sixth year (AD 87). The end, which would have asked for the name to be struck from the tax rolls, is lost.

In English machine translation

Such declarations were filed so that the deceased would be removed from the register of those liable to the poll-tax (laographia). The Greek term here, laike syntaxis, refers to that tax assessment.

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.