Death notice addressed to the lessee of Seneca's estate TM 16229OxyrhynchosRoman CE 83, Aug [GMP]

A death notice addressed to Tiberius Claudius Theon, lessee of the estate of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, reporting that the sender's father, a man registered on that estate and living in a village of the Middle toparchy, died in the second year of Nero. It asks that the dead man be entered in the register of deceased persons. From Oxyrhynchos, AD 55/56.

In English machine translation

The estate belonged to the philosopher Seneca, Nero's adviser, who held land in Egypt. One catalogue gives AD 83, but the regnal year of Nero in the text points to AD 55/56.

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.