Notification of the death of a slave registered in the Plateia quarter TM 78578Oxyrhynchos29. Jan. 179

A notice of death submitted at Oxyrhynchus by Amois also called Dionysios, reporting that his adult slave Eutyches also called Psiathas, registered in the Plateia quarter, had died some time earlier, and asking that he be entered in the list of the dead. It is dated 29 January 179 under Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, and ends with the declarant's signature and an official's acknowledgement of a copy.

In English machine translation

Such death notices were filed so that the deceased could be removed from the poll-tax registers; "the list of such persons" means the register of the dead. The official's name in the receipt is only partly preserved.

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.