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Notification of the death of a brother at Karanis TM 397538Karanis (Arsinoites)148 - 149 (?)

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A notification of death addressed to the royal scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome by Ptolemaios son of Sarapion of Karanis, reporting the death of his full brother. It dates from about AD 148-149.

In English machine translation

[recto] [To …], royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, [Herakleides] division, [from Ptol]emaios son of Sarapion, [son of Apol]lonios, from the village of [Karanis]. My brother by the same father and [the same mother], […], died in the […] year […] of Caesar the Lord […] … […]lemais(?) […] to Ptolemais(?) […] [… ? lines lost …] [verso] Year 12, […]

The brother's name and the date of death are lost; the verso's year 12 presumably refers to Antoninus Pius, which fits the proposed date.

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

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p.cair.mich.2.16

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 148 - 149 (?) · Karanis (Arsinoites)

[r] […] βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Πτολεμαίου Σαραπίωνος τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος. ὁ ὁμοπάτριος καὶ ὁμομήτριός μου ἀδελφὸς […] ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ […] ἔτει […] Καίσαρος τοῦ Κυρίου […] … […]λεμαιδαν […] εἰς Πτολεμαι-[…]…[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v] ἔτ…