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A notification of death addressed to Julius, village scribe of Sesphtha in the Oxyrhynchite nome, by Kephalas son of Leontas, reporting that his son Panechotes, who had no trade, died in the month of Hathyr. He asks that his son be registered among the dead and swears an oath by the emperor Commodus that the statement is true.
Such declarations removed the dead from the poll-tax registers; 'without a trade' (atechnos) means he was not liable to trade taxes. The isolated 'π' at the top is unexplained, and the record's mention of moral precepts presumably refers to another text on the same papyrus.
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. Moral Precepts). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
π Ἰουλίῳ κωμογραμματεῖ Σέσφθα παρὰ Κεφαλᾶτος Λεοντᾶτος μητρὸς Πλουτάρχης ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς Σέσφθα. ὁ σημαινόμενός μου υἱὸς Πανεχώτης Κεφαλᾶτος τοῦ Λεοντᾶτος μητρὸς Ἡραίδος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς Σέσφθα ἄτεχνος ὢν ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ ἐνεστῶτι ἔτει μηνὶ Ἁθύρ. διὸ ἐπιδίδωμι τὸ βιβλίδιον ἀξιῶν ταγῆναι…
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