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Notice of death of the wool-seller Aurelius Eudaimon TM 16017Oxyrhynchos1. Jan. - 28. Aug. 300

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A notice of death submitted at Oxyrhynchus in AD 300 by Aurelia Tineus to the systates Aurelius Sarapion, reporting that her son-in-law Aurelius Eudaimon, a wool-seller, had died. She asks that he be removed from the registers so that she will not be troubled over his wool-sellers' guild obligations or his poll tax.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our lords Constantius and Maximianus, the most illustrious Caesars, for the 3rd time. To Aurelius Sarapion, systates of the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, for the quarters of Pammenes' Garden and others, from Aurelia Tineus daughter of Lykarion, from the same city. The late husband of my daughter, Aurelius Eudaimon son of Eudaimon, his mother being Taaphynchis, from the same city, a wool-seller registered in the quarter of Pammenes' Garden, died as long ago as the 11th of the month Phaophi of the present 16th and 15th and 8th year. Therefore I submit this notice of reduction, asking that he be struck off and entered in the list of the dead, so that I may be free from harassment regarding matters belonging to the guild of the wool-sellers and regarding the poll tax, and I swear the oath customary among the Romans that I have not lied. Year 16 and year 15 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti and year 8 of our lords […] […]

The systates was a local official responsible for a group of city quarters; the 'reduction' (elattosis) is the formal request to strike a dead person from tax and guild lists. The end of the date clause and any subscription are lost.

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 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 1. Jan. - 28. Aug. 300 · Oxyrhynchos

ἐπὶ ὑπάτων τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ τῶν ἐπιφανεστάτων Καισάρων τὸ τρίτον. Αὐρηλίῳ Σαραπίωνι συστάτῃ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως ἀμφόδου Παμμένους Παραδείσου καὶ ἄλλων, παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Τινεῦτος Λυκαρίωνος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. ὁ γενόμενος ἀνὴρ τῆ…