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Declaration of the death of Zoilos son of Pethyllos TM 13395Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)22. Febr. 180

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A son, whose name is partly lost (…amon), reports to the scribes of the metropolis that his father Zoilos, an unskilled assistant registered for poll tax, died in Mecheir, and asks that his name be entered in the list of the deceased. Written at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome in February AD 180, under Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.

In English machine translation

To Bokkas also called Apol[…] and Koutas, scribes of the metropolis, from […]amon son of Zoilos son of Pethyllos, from the metropolis. My father Zoilos, son of Pethyllos son of Chairemon, his mother being Tao…, an unskilled assistant, registered for poll tax in the quarter of […], died in the month of Mecheir of the present year, and I ask that his name be entered in the list of the deceased, as in similar cases. Filed with the scribes of the metropolis concerning the death of Zoilos. Year 20 of A… and … Commodus, the lords Emperors, Mecheir 27.

Death notices like this removed the deceased from the poll-tax (laographia) rolls. The term translated 'unskilled assistant' (hyperetes atechnos) describes a helper without a trade.

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.

c.pap.gr.2.1.57

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 22. Febr. 180 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

Βοκκᾷ τῷ καὶ Ἀπολ καὶ Κουτᾷ γραμματεῦσι μητροπόλεως παρὰ […]αμωνος Ζωίλου τοῦ Πεθύλλου ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως. ὁ πατήρ μου Ζωίλος Πεθύλλου τοῦ Χαιρήμονος μητρὸς Ταο……ος ὑπερετὴς ἄτεχνος λαογραφούμενος ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου […]… ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ Μεχὶρ μηνὶ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἔτους καὶ ἀξιῶ ταγῆναι αὐ…