Mandate to register a deed of gift of gravedigging rights before the archidikastes TM 23141Kysis (Oasis Magna)ca. Aug. - Sept. 250

A contract from Kysis in the Great Oasis in which Besas, a gravedigger, authorizes a fellow townsman who is sailing to Alexandria to register publicly before the archidikastes a private deed of gift. The gift, made in Phaophi of Decius' first year by a woman Tbekis with her husband Psennesis as guardian, concerned shares of funerary service rights in Kysis and parts of a house.

In English machine translation

Private handwritten contracts (cheirographa) had to be registered in the archive at Alexandria through the archidikastes to gain public validity. The 'funerary service' (kedeia) refers to the hereditary right to tend and bury the dead of certain families, which gravediggers could sell or give away in shares.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Mandate for Representation). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.