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Notice of the death of a slave to the royal scribe TM 23157Lykopolites ?

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A death notice addressed to Aurelius Apollonios, royal scribe, by Aurelius Herakleios the younger, reporting that his slave died and asking that the slave's name be struck from the public registers. It is dated Mecheir 15 of year 3 of Maximinus Thrax and his son Maximus, that is, early AD 236.

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Apollonios, royal scribe of the Herakleopolite (?) nome, from Aurelius Herakleios the younger, son of Herakleios, from […] […] since my slave, […] […] Stephan… (?), died in the […] […] within the fort, I ask that his name be removed through the public registers, as is proper. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus Germanicus Maximus Pius Felix Augustus and of Gaius Julius Verus Maximus, the most sacred Caesar Germanicus Maximus, son of the Augustus, Mecheir 15. I, Herakleios, submitted it.

The records give the Lykopolite nome with a query, while the restored address names the royal scribe of the Herakleopolite nome; the nome name is an editorial restoration. The phrase 'within the fort' may refer to where the slave died.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Todesanzeige). 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.2.1.77

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Lykopolites ?

Αὐρηλίωι Ἀπολλωνίωι βασιλικῶι γραμματεῖ Ἡρακλεοπολίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἡρακλείου νεωτέρου Ἡρακλείου ἀπὸ[…] […]… ἐπεὶ ὁ δοῦλός μου, […] […]στεφαν αφ…, ἐτελεύτησεν τῶι[…] […]…φ[…]ἐντὸς φρουρίου, ἀξιῶ σε περιαιρεθῆναι αὐτοῦ τὸ ὄνομα διὰ τῶν δημοσίων βιβλίων, ὡς καθήκει. ἔτους γ Αὐτοκρ…