One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22605
Acknowledgement of receipt of a corpse from a gravedigger of the Great Oasis TM 22605Fundort: Kysis (Oasis Magna, Ägypten); Schreibort: ÄgyptenJuli 311
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A receipt in which two men, Aurelius T[…]s and Argios, acknowledge to a gravedigger of the Great Oasis that they have received, sealed, the body of a dead person connected with a man named Heron, which he had transported. It is dated by the consuls to July 311 and comes from Kysis in the Kharga Oasis.
In English machine translation
The Aurelii T[…]s […] and Argios […] from the village of […], to Aurelius […], gravedigger (nekrotaphos) […] of the Great Oasis, greetings. […]
The dead body of the […] of Heron which you conveyed, sealed, arriving […] sealed and […] of Dioskoros […] staying (?) […] to us, we have received sealed […] with a single deed of security, which we have also issued to you for security, and having been asked the formal question we have agreed.
In the consulship of our masters Galerius Valerius Maximianus Augustus for the 8th time and Galerius Valerius Maximinus Augustus for the 2nd time, in the month of July […].
We, the Aurelii T[…]s and Argios, the aforesaid, have received the body from the aforesaid necropolis. I, Aurelius […], wrote on their behalf because they do not know letters. […]
The nekrotaphoi were gravediggers and undertakers who transported and handled mummies; the exact relationship of the deceased to Heron is lost in a gap.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Acknowledgement of Receipt of a Corpse). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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Αὐρήλιοι Τ…ς […] καὶ Ἄργιος […] … ἀπὸ κώμης […] Αὐρηλίῳ […] νεκροτάϕῳ …[…]…[…] τῆς Μεγάλης Ὀάσεως χαίρειν. […] ὃ παρεκόμισας σῶμα νεκρὸν τοῦ μ…[…] Ἥρωνος ἐσϕραγισμένον παραγινόμενον […] σϕραγισθέντα καὶ ἀπ[…]λωσαν[…] …ων Διοσκόρου α…[…] καταγινομεν […] […]ι ἡμῖν, ἐδεξάμεθα ἐσϕραγ…