Death Notice
Notification of the death of a taxpayer, addressed to the administration by his son
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 8795
Notification of the death of a poll-tax payer from Ptolemais Hormou TM 8795Ptolemais Hormou, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptOctober 27, 184 A.D.
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A death notice in which Ischyrion son of Deios informs Hermophilos, royal scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, that his father Deios, a poll-tax payer of Ptolemais Hormou, has died, and asks that his name be entered among the deceased. The royal scribe's office instructs the village scribe to verify the death and act accordingly, in October 184 AD.
In English machine translation
To Hermophilos, royal scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome,
from Ischyrion son of Deios, son of Hermas, his mother being Asklas, from the village of Ptolemais Hormou.
My father Deios, son of Hermas, son of Eleis, his mother being Merous, registered for poll tax in the aforementioned village, died in the month of Phaophi of the present 25th year of Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus. Therefore I ask that his name be entered in the list of the deceased, as in similar cases.
To the village scribe of Ptolemais Hormou. Investigate. If the above-mentioned has truly died, carry out what is consistent with similar cases, knowing that you will be held accountable if anything is done improperly. I, Hermophilos, royal scribe, have signed, through Horos, assistant.
Year 25 of Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Phaophi 30.
Such notices removed the deceased from the poll-tax (laographia) rolls. The royal scribe was the senior financial-administrative official of the nome below the strategos.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Death Notice). 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.2.1.59b
Ἑρμοφίλῳ βασιλικῷγραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Ἰσχυρίωνος Δείου τοῦ Ἑρμᾶτος μητρὸς Ἀσκλᾶτος ἀπὸ κώμης Πτολεμαίδος Ὅρμου. ὁ πατήρ μου Δεῖος Ἑρμᾶτος τοῦ Ἠλεῖτος μητρὸς Μηροῦτος λαογραφούμενος ἐπὶ τῆς προκειμένης κώμης ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ Φαῶφι μηνὶ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος κε ἔτους …