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A sworn declaration addressed to the royal scribe, who was also acting for the strategos, by Demetrios son of Pechbous. He reports that his full brother died in the 11th year, having paid all his taxes, and asks that his name be removed from the public tax registers. It dates to 27 July 203 in the Hermopolite nome.
Such death notices removed the deceased from the poll-tax rolls. The brother's name and the village name 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 Richiesta per cancellazione dal ruolo dei debitori di tasse). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[…]βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ διαδεχομένῳ καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν στρατηγίαν[…] παρὰ Δημητρίου Πεχβοοῦτος Ψόϊτος ἀπὸ κώμης […]ων. ἐπεὶ τῶι ἐνεστῶτι ια ἔτει ὁ ἀδελφός μου […]…ας ἐκ τῶν αὐτῶν γονέων ἐτελεύτησεν τετελεκὼς πάντα τὰ ὑπὲρ αὑτοῦ δημόσια, ἀξιῶ αὐτὸν περιελεῖν ἐκ τῶν δημοσίων λόγων, ὡς κ…
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