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A notification of death addressed to Serenos, the city scribe of Oxyrhynchus, by Theon son of Horion, reporting that his full brother Eudaimon, registered in the Temgenouthis quarter, died in the month Phaophi. He asks that Eudaimon be entered in the list of the deceased and swears an oath by the emperors Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta, in AD 201.
"The list of such persons" refers to the register of the deceased, which removed the dead man from poll-tax liability. The end of the dating formula and any subscriptions 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 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.
Σερήνῳ γραμματεῖ πόλεως παρὰ Θέωνος Ὡρίωνος τοῦ Θέωνος μητρὸς Ταπονθεῦτος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. ὁ ὁμογνήσιός μου ἀδελφὸς Εὐδαίμων τῷ ἐνεστῶτι ι ἔτει Φαῶφι ἐτελεύτησεν, ἀναγραφόμενος ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Τεμγενούθεως. διὸ ἐπιδίδωμι τὸ ὑπόμνημα, ἀξιῶν αὐτὸν ἀναγραφῆναι ἐν τῇ τῶν ὁμοίων τάξε…
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