Notification of death
In this text Tapapeis reports to the royal secretary of the Herakleides division the death of her husband Abeis,a resident of Philadelphia, in June/July, 47 A.D.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 14492
Notification of the death of Abeis son of Horos to the royal scribe TM 14492Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune/July, 47 A.D.
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A notification of death addressed to Hermaios, the royal scribe, by Tapapeis, acting with her kinsman Adrastos as guardian. She reports that her husband Abeis, a poll-tax payer at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, died in Epeiph of Claudius' 7th year (June/July AD 47), and asks that his name be entered in the list of the dead.
In English machine translation
To Hermaios, royal scribe,
from Tapapeis daughter of Pasis, with as guardian her kinsman Adrastos son of Diogenes. My husband Abeis son of Horos, who paid the poll tax (laographia) at the village of Philadelphia, died in the month of Epeiph of the present 7th year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator. Therefore I ask that his name be entered among the deceased.
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The 'laike syntaxis' is the poll tax paid by ordinary inhabitants; such notices removed the dead from the tax rolls. The end of the document, probably with the date and signatures, is lost, and this copy appears to be a duplicate.
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.
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Ἑρμαίωι βασιλικῶι γραμματεῖ παρὰ Ταπαπέϊτος τῆς Πάσιτος μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ συνγενοῦς Ἀδράστου τοῦ Διογένους. ὁ ἀνήρ μου Ἀβεῖς Ὥρου τελῶν τὴν λαικὴν σύνταξιν ἐπὶ κώμης Φιλαδελφείας ἐτελεύτησεν ἐν τῶι Ἐπεὶφ μηνὶ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἑβδόμου ἔτους Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικο…