A death notice submitted to Hermeinos, royal scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, by the former gymnasiarch Sabeinus, acting through a representative, reporting that his grandson Sarapion, a poll-tax payer of the Dionysiou Topon quarter, died in Mecheir. An official subscription instructs the metropolis scribes to act if the death is confirmed.
In English machine translation
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To Hermeinos, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
[from Sabei]nus son of Sabeinus, former gymnasiarch, from the Dionysiou Topon quarter, absent, through Nemesianus also called Artemidorus. My grandson Sarapion, registered in the same Dionysiou Topon quarter as liable to poll tax, died in the month of Mecheir of this present year 13 of Hadrian Caesar the lord. Therefore I ask that he be entered in the list of such persons.
I, Sabeinus son of Sabeinus, former gymnasiarch, absent, through Nemesianus also called Artemidorus son of Sarapion, guardian (?), have submitted this, and I swear by the fortune of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus that the foregoing is true.
Year 13 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Mecheir 24.
To the scribes of the metropolis. If the aforementioned has truly died, carry out what follows. Year 13 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Mecheir 24. I, Philoxenos, scribe, have signed.
(Quarter) of Dionysiou Topon.
Such notices allowed the deceased to be removed from the poll-tax rolls by being entered among 'those of like status', i.e. the dead. The word rendered 'guardian' is epitropos, here the agent acting for the absent declarant.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Denunzie di morte). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.