One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9558
Death notice for Albanos son of Lucius submitted by Heras TM 9558Talei (Arsinoites)
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A death notice submitted by Heras daughter of Hatres of the village of Talei in the Arsinoite nome, reporting that Albanos son of Lucius, a poll-tax payer of the village, died in Mecheir of year 23 of Caracalla, and asking that his name be entered in the register of the deceased. An official instruction to the village scribe to verify the death follows.
In English machine translation
From Heras daughter of Hatres, from the village of Talei, with her guardian […]mal…os also called Malleitos […]. My […] Albanos son of Lucius son of Albanos, his mother being Soeris, who paid the poll taxes in the aforesaid village, died in the present month Mecheir of the current 23rd year. I ask that his name be entered in the list of the deceased, as in similar cases.
To the village scribe of Talei. If in truth the aforementioned Albanis has died […] examine […] in accordance with the […] of the deceased […].
Year 23 of our lord Imperator Severus Antoninus Felix Pius Augustus, [Mecheir] 10.
Heras's relationship to the deceased is lost in a gap. The name appears as both Albanos and Albanis in the text.
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.2.1.73
παρὰ Ἡρᾶ θυγατρὸς Ἁτρῆ ἀπὸ κώμης Ταλεὶ μετὰ κυρίου[…]μαλ…ος τοῦ καὶ Μαλλείτου …[…] μου Ἀλβανὸς Λουκίου τοῦ Ἀλβανοῦ μητρὸς Σοήρεως τελῶν τὰ ἐπικεφάλαια ἐπὶ τῆς προκειμένης κώμης ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ ὄντι μηνὶ Μεχεὶρ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος κγ ἔτους. ἀξιῶ ταγῆναι αὐτοῦ τὸ ὄνομα ἐν τῇ τῶν τετελευτη…