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A sworn notification of death submitted by Aurelia Ammonarous of Teis, reporting that her full brother died in the month of Hathyr and asking that he be entered in the register of the deceased. It was written for her by Aurelius Chairemon because she was illiterate, in January AD 226.
The addressee and the brother's name are lost. Such notices allowed the deceased to be removed from poll-tax and census rolls.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Notification of Death). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Ἀμμωναροῦτος Ὀρσεντίου μητρὸς Σινθώνιος ἀπὸ Τήεως. … ὁ ὁμογνήσιός μου ἀδελφός, […]…οντος γονέων τῶν αὐτῶν ἀναγραφόμενος ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς Τήεως ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ ἐνεστῶτι ἔτει μηνὶ Ἁθύρ. διὸ ἐπιδίδωμι τὸ ὑπόμνημα ἀξιοῦσα ἀναγραφῆναι αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ τῶν τετελευτηκότων τάξει ὡς …
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