Death Notice
Declaration addressed by Sambas son of Pakysis to the komogrammateus of Karanis, giving him notice of the death of Sambas' father Pakysis, son of Petaus
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 14012
Notice of the death of Pakysis son of Petaus to the village scribe of Karanis TM 14012Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptOctober/November 111 A.D. (or soon after)
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A death notice submitted by Sambas son of Pakysis to Ptolemaios, village scribe of Karanis, reporting that his father Pakysis died in Hathyr of Trajan's 15th year and asking that his name be entered in the list of the dead. A registration note by the scribe's office follows.
In English machine translation
To Ptolemaios, village scribe of Karanis,
from Sambas son of Pakysis son of Petaus, his mother being Tketis, of those from the aforesaid village of Karanis. My above-written father Pakysis son of Petaus son of Teos, his mother being Tamysthas, an assistant (?) released from the poll-tax register in the same village, died in the month of Hathyr of the present 15th year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus. Therefore I submit this memorandum so that his name may be placed in the list of the deceased.
Registered with the village scribe on account of death, year 15.
Such notices removed the deceased from the poll-tax (laographia) rolls. The word rendered 'assistant' (hyperetes, spelled hyperetes with an epsilon) may denote a minor official's attendant; the father had already been released from the poll-tax register, probably by age.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Todesanzeige). 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.2.1.25
Πτολεμαίωι κωμογραμματεῖ Καρανίδος παρὰ Σαμβᾶ τοῦ Πακύσιος τοῦ Πεταῦτος μητρὸς Τκετῖτος τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς προκιμένης κώμης Καρανίδος. ὁ προγεγραμμένος μου πατὴρ Πακῦσις Πεταῦτος τοῦ Τεῶτος μητρὸς Ταμύσθας ὑπερετὴς ἀπολελυμένος τῆς λαογραφίας ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ Ἁθὺρ μηνὶ…