p.ashm.1.3
[r] Διοσκουρίδης καὶ Ἀχιλλεύς. ἀνενήνεκται ἔτους β Φαρμοῦθι γ ἀποστάσιον κ… νεκριῶν ταριχευτῶν, ὃ ποιεῖται Σοκόνωπις Μαρρεῖ. ἐπικελεύει ἡ γυνή Θασῶς. διὰ Ἰναρῶτος. [v] [… 11 lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 2652
Greek registration docket on a Demotic cession of burial rights TM 2652Aueris (Arsinoites)21. Apr. 115 v.Chr.
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A Greek registration docket added to a Demotic contract by which Sokonopis cedes rights connected with embalmers and the dead to Marres, with his wife Thasos consenting. It was registered on 21 April 115 BC at Aueris in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Dioskourides and Achilleus. Registered in year 2, Pharmouthi 3: deed of cession (?) […] of embalmers of the dead (?), [which Sokonopis makes]
to Marres. His wife Thasos consents. Through Inaros.
[verso]
[… 11 lines lost …]
The Greek term apostasion, a deed of cession, here refers to the transfer of funerary rights, meaning income from tending the dead. Part of the description of the parties is restored and uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Griechische Beischrift zu einer demotischen Abtretung von Grabrechten). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.