Notification of death
Notification to Isidotus, royal scribe, from Antinous, about the death of his son Saprion.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 14273
Notification of the death of Saprion, in duplicate TM 14273Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 26-February 24, 215 A.D.
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 4 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A notification of death in two copies, addressed by Arsinoos son of Kronion to the royal scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. He reports that his son Saprion, a poll-tax payer, died in Mecheir and asks that his name be entered among the deceased, at Ptolemais Euergetis in AD 215.
In English machine translation
[Copy A]
To Isidotos also called Horigenes, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Arsinoos son of Kronion, son of Sarapion, from the quarter of Plateia […]dou. My son Saprion, who was paying the poll tax in the aforesaid quarter, died in the present month of Mecheir of the present year. Therefore I ask that his name be entered in the list of the deceased, as is done in similar cases. Therefore I submit this.
Year 23 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Parthicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Pius Augustus.
[Copy B]
To Isidotos also called Horigenes, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Arsinoos son of Kronion, son of Sarapion, from the quarter of Plateia […]dou. My son Saprion, who was paying the poll tax in the aforesaid quarter, died in the present month of Mecheir of the present year. Therefore I ask that his name be entered in the list of the deceased, as is done in similar cases. Therefore I submit this.
The descriptive records call the sender Antinous, but the edition reads Arsinoos. Such notices removed the deceased from the poll-tax (laographia) rolls.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Todesanzeige in doppelter Ausfertigung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Notification of death
Notification to Isidotus, royal scribe, from Antinous, about the death of his son Saption.
c.pap.gr.2.1.72
[adupl] Ἰσιδότῳ τῷ καὶ Ὡριγένῃ βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Ἀρσινόου Κρονίωνος τοῦ Σαραπίωνος ἀπὸ ἀμφόδου Πλατείας …δου. ὁ υἱός μου Σαπρίων τελῶν τὴν λαογραφίαν ἐπὶ τοῦ προκειμένου ἀμφόδου ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ ἐνεστῶτι μηνὶ Μεχεὶρ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἔτους. διὸ ἀξιῶ …