Declaration of death
Paopis informs Melanas, village scribe of Tebtunis, Egypt, of the death of his father Psoiphis.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 13460
Notice of death of the priest Psoiphis submitted by his son Paopis TM 13460Tebtynis (Arsinoites)9 Feb. 151 A.D.
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A notice of death submitted by Paopis, an exempted priest of the temple at Tebtynis, to the village scribe Melanas, reporting that his father Psoiphis, also a priest, died in Tybi. He asks that the name be struck off the register and swears the statement is true; the scribe acknowledges receipt on 9 February 151.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To Melanas, village scribe of Tebtynis,
from Paopis son of Psoiphis son of Paopis, exempted priest of the famous temple in Tebtynis.
My father Psoiphis son of Paopis, his mother being Asis, from the same village, exempted priest of the same temple, died in the month of Tybi of the present 14th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord. Therefore I submit this so that this name may be removed and I ask that he be entered in the list of those in like condition, and I swear by the fortune of Antoninus Caesar the lord that the above statements are true.
I, Paopis son of Psoiphis, have submitted it.
Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Mecheir 15.
I, Melanas, village scribe, have received a copy of this. Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Mecheir 15.
[verso]
Notice of death of Psoiphis son of Paopis.
An "exempted" (apolysimos) priest was one of a fixed number of priests freed from the poll tax; the notice ensured the dead man was removed from the tax lists.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Notice of Death). 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.2.1.41
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