One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9598
Death notification for a minor registered at Bakchias TM 9598Bakchias (Arsinoites)41 - 68
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Notification of death addressed to Epainetos, royal scribe, by Psenamounis son of Panesneus, reporting that Pasoknopais son of Theon, a minor registered at Bakchias who did not yet pay the poll-tax, died in Pharmouthi under an emperor named Claudius. A first, very fragmentary text precedes it on the same sheet.
In English machine translation
[1]
[…]
[…] of Tiberius
[…]
[…] I ask
[…]
[2]
To Epainetos, royal scribe,
from Psenamounis son of Panesneus.
The son of the sister of Asklepiades, Pasoknopais son of Theon, a minor not yet paying the poll-tax, but registered by personal description in the village of Bakchias, died in the month of Pharmouthi of the […] year of […] Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator.
[Therefore I ask that he be entered] among […]
[…]
Registration 'by personal description' (eikonismos) refers to recording a person's physical features for identification in tax lists. The emperor may be Claudius or Nero, both of whom bore the name Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus.
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.2.1.11
[1] [… 1 line lost …] […] Τιβερίου [… 2 lines lost …] […] ἀξιῶ [… 3 lines lost …] [2] Ἐπαινέτωι βασιλικῶι γραμματεῖ παρὰ Ψεναμούνιος τοῦ Πανεσνέως. ὁ τῆς ἀδελφῆς τοῦ Ἀσκληπιάδου υἱὸς Πασοκνοπαῖς Θέωνος ἀφῆλιξ μήπω τελῶν τὸ τέλεσμα λαογραφίας, ἀναγεγραμμένος δὲ διὰ τοῦ εἰκονισμοῦ …