Notification of Death
Papontos, son of Alypos, reports the death of his father to the secretary of the city of Oxyrhynchus
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21354
Notification of the death of Alypos by his son Papontos TM 21354Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egyptca. 150 A.D.
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A notification of death addressed to Ptolemaios also called Sarapion, city secretary of Oxyrhynchus, by Papontos son of Alypos, reporting that his father Alypos, an adult registered in the Chenoboskon (Goose-herds') quarter, died in the month of Choiak. The document dates to about AD 150; the end is lost.
In English machine translation
To Ptolemaios also called Sarapion, secretary of the city,
from Papontos son of Alypos, grandson of Papontos, his mother being Taras, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. My father Alypos son of Papontos, his mother being Teironeia, from the same city, an adult without a trade, registered in the Chenoboskon quarter, died in the past month of Choiak […]
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"Without a trade" (atechnos) marks a man not registered in a craft, relevant for tax purposes. Such notices were filed so the deceased could be removed from the poll-tax rolls.
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.
c.pap.gr.2.1.40
Πτολεμαίῳ τῷ καὶ Σαραπίωνι γραμματεῖ πόλεως παρὰ Παποντῶτος Ἀλύπου τοῦ Παποντῶτος μητρὸς Ταρᾶτος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. ὁ πατήρ μου Ἄλυπος Παποντῶτος μητρὸς Τειρωνείας ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως τέλειος ἄτεχνος ἀναγραφόμενος ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Χηνοβοσκῶν ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ διελθόντι μηνὶ Χοιάκ[…] …