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Notice of the deaths of two slaves to the city scribes TM 15658Oxyrhynchos78 - 79

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A sworn notice from Herodes son of Apion to the city scribes of Oxyrhynchus reporting the deaths of two slaves registered at his house in the Lycian Camp quarter: Amarantos, belonging to his brother, and the minor Diogenes, belonging to his wife Bereneike. He asks that they be entered in the register of the dead for the 11th year of Vespasian (AD 78/79).

In English machine translation

To Apollophanes and Diogenes, city scribes, from Herodes son of Apion, of those from the city of Oxyrhynchus. The persons registered at the house which I own in the Lycian Camp quarter, Amarantos, slave of my brother Herakleides, and Diogenes, slave of my wife Bereneike daughter of Bitharion, a minor, both without a trade, died in the present eleventh year of Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus, and I swear by Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus that in truth they have died as stated above. I therefore ask that they be entered in the list of those who died in the same year, as is done in similar cases. I, Diogenes, have signed. Year 11 of Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus, […] 4.

Such death notices removed people from the tax rolls, ending liability for poll tax. The month in the dating clause is lost; only the day number 4 survives.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Notice of the Deaths of Slaves). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 78 - 79 · Oxyrhynchos

Ἀπολλοφάνει καὶ Διογένει γραμματεῦσι πόλεως παρὰ Ἡρώδου τοῦ Ἀπίωνος τῶν ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. οἱ ἀπογραφόμενοι ἐφʼ ἧς ἔχω οἰκίας ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Λυκίων Παρεμβολῆς Ἀμαράντος δοῦλος τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ μου Ἡρακλείδου καὶ Διογένης δοῦλος τῆς γυναικός μου Βερενείκης τῆς Βιθαρίωνος ἀφῆλιξ ἀμφότερ…