Notice of death
Notice of the death of two relatives, sent to the scribes of the city by a hierotekton of Thoeris, Isis, Sarapis, and the associated gods, to Apolllonios and Didymos.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21916
Notice of death of a temple-builder's father and grandfather TM 21916Oxyrhynchos156 A.D.
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A notice of death submitted to Apollonios and Didymos, scribes of the city of Oxyrhynchus, by Theon, a temple-builder of Thoeris, Isis, Sarapis and associated gods. He reports that his father Harthonis and his maternal grandfather Paos, both temple-builders, died in the month Phaophi of the twentieth regnal year, and asks that their deaths be registered.
In English machine translation
To Apollonios and Didymos, scribes of the city,
from Theon son of Harthonis son of Theon, his mother being Tapsois daughter of Paos, of Oxyrhynchus city, temple-builder of Thoeris and Isis and Sarapis and the associated most great gods. My father Harthonis son of Theon son of Harthonis, his mother being Thermouthion daughter of Pausiris, temple-builder of the same gods, and my maternal grandfather Paos son of Peteuris, his mother being Taaphynchis daughter of Saras, builder of Isis and of the same gods, both from the same city, my father registered in the Dromos of Thoeris quarter, and my maternal grandfather, an assistant, registered in the Dromos of the Gymnasium quarter, died in the past month Phaophi of the present twentieth year of Trajan (?) Caesar the lord. Therefore I submit this memorandum and ask that they be registered in the […] of […]
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The edition restores the emperor's name as Trajan, but the date of AD 156 given in the records points to year 20 of Antoninus Pius, so the restoration of the emperor's name is doubtful. A hierotekton was a builder or craftsman attached to a temple.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Notice 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.2.1.26
Ἀπολλωνίῳ καὶ Διδύμῳ γραμματεῦσι πόλεως παρὰ Θέωνος τοῦ Ἁρθόνιος τοῦ Θέωνος μητρὸς Ταψόιτος τῆς Παῶτος τῶν ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως ἱεροτέκτονος Θοήριδος καὶ Ἴσιδος καὶ Σαράπιδος καὶ τῶν συννάων θεῶν μεγίστων. ὁ πατήρ μου Ἁρθόνις Θέωνος τοῦ Ἁρθόνιος μητρὸς Θερμουθίου τῆς Παυσίριος ἱε…