Notification of death of Phaesis to the royal scribe TM 15028Karanis (Arsinoites)

Notification of death addressed to Diophantos, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, by Pasemis son of Phaesis of Karanis, reporting that his father Phaesis, a poll-tax payer, died in Hathyr of the 17th year of Antoninus Pius and asking that he be removed to the list of the dead. An official's endorsement instructs the village scribe to verify the death and act accordingly.

In English machine translation

Such death notices removed a man from the poll-tax (laographia) rolls. The regnal year 17 of Antoninus corresponds to AD 153/154.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.