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Notification of the death of the slave Sarapas TM 16887Oxyrhynchos25. Nov. 153

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A notice of death sent to Theogenes, the city secretary of Oxyrhynchus, by Agathokleia also called Apollonia, acting with her son as guardian. She reports that her untrained slave Sarapas, registered in the Hermaios quarter, died in the month Hathyr and asks that he be entered in the list of the deceased, confirming this under oath by the emperor Antoninus Pius.

In English machine translation

To Theogenes also called Ladikenos, city secretary, from Agathokleia also called Apollonia, daughter of Ischyrion, of the city of Oxyrhynchus, with her guardian, her son Ischyrion son of Theon. Sarapas, my slave, without a trade, registered in the Hermaios quarter, died in the present month Hathyr. Therefore I ask that he be registered in the list of such persons, as is proper, and I swear by Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius that the above is true. Year 17 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Hathyr 29.

"Without a trade" renders atechnos, a registration term for persons not practising a craft. Women at this time needed a male guardian (kyrios) for legal acts, here her own son.

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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c.pap.gr.2.1.44

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. Nov. 153 · Oxyrhynchos

Θεογένει τῷ καὶ Λαδικηνῶι γραμματεῖ πόλεως παρὰ Ἀγαθοκλείας τῆς καὶ Ἀπολλωνίας Ἰσχυρίωνος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ υἱοῦ Ἰσχυρίωνος Θέωνος. Σαραπᾶς δοῦλος μου ἄτεχνος ἀναγραφόμενος ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Ἑρμαίου ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ ἐνεστῶτι μηνὶ Ἁθύρ. διὸ ἀξιῶ ἀναγραφῆναι τοῦτον ἐν τῇ…