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Notification of the death of a slave weaver to the weavers' tax collectors TM 16521Oxyrhynchos26. Jan. - 24. Febr. 91

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A sworn notification of death addressed to the collectors of the weavers' trade tax at Oxyrhynchus by the widow Zenarion. She reports that Diogas, a weaver and slave formerly belonging to her late husband Sarapion but pledged to Marcus Antonius Pallas, died in Choiak of Domitian's tenth year, and asks that he be entered in the list of the deceased. It dates to early AD 91.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] to the collectors of the weavers' trade tax, from Zenarion daughter of Herakleides son of Hephaistion, of the city of Oxyrhynchus, with her guardian, her daughter's husband Hermesion son of Ischyrion. [Diogas], formerly slave of my late husband Sarapion son of Diogenes but taken in pledge by Marcus Antonius Pallas, a weaver registered at the house formerly belonging to the same husband of mine Sarapion but taken in pledge by the same Antonius Pallas, in the Temgenouthis quarter, died in the month of Choiak of the present tenth year of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus. Therefore I ask that he be registered in the list of such persons, as is proper, and I swear by Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus that the slave Diogas has died. If I swear truly may it be well with me, if falsely the opposite. I, Apollonios, have signed. Year 10 of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, Mecheir […]

The cheironaxion was a tax on trades and crafts, here levied on weavers. The slave's name Diogas at the start is restored from its later occurrence in the oath.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 26. Jan. - 24. Febr. 91 · Oxyrhynchos

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…]…[…]…[…]πράκτορσι χειρωναξίου γερδίων παρὰ Ζηναρίου τῆς Ἡρακλείδου τοῦ Ἡφαιστίωνος τῶν ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ τῆς θυγατρὸς ἀνδρὸς Ἑρμησίωνος τοῦ Ἰσχυρίωνος. Διογᾶς δοῦλος πρότερον τοῦ μετηλλαχότος μου ἀνδρὸς Σαραπίωνος τοῦ Διογένους ἐνεχυρα…