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A death notice submitted to an official at Oxyrhynchus reporting that a man, liable to the poll tax and the trade tax, died in the month Hathyr, and asking that he be entered among the deceased and removed from the tax rolls. The declarant swears an oath by Marcus Aurelius; the document is dated 23 January 174 AD.
The opening with the names of the official, the declarant and the deceased is lost. The cheironaxion was a tax on practising a trade or craft.
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.
[… ? lines lost …] τελῶν τὴν λαογραφίαν καὶ τὸ χειρωνάξιον ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ ἐνεστῶτι ἔτει μηνὶ Ἁθὺρ διὸ ἐπιδίδωμι τὸ ὑπόμνημα ἀξιῶν ἀναγραφῆναι τοῦτον ἐν τῇ τῶν τετελευτηκότων τάξει διὰ τῶν ὑπὸ σοῦ καταχωριζομένων δημοσίων βιβλίων περιγραφῆναί τε περὶ τῆς λαογρα…
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