One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9639
Notification of the death of Teapnamis son of Petobastis TM 9639Bakchias (Arsinoites)153
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A notification of death from Bakchias in the Arsinoite nome, in which a relative reports that Teapnamis son of Petobastis died in Tybi of the 16th year of Antoninus Pius and asks that he be registered among the dead. It dates to AD 153.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] from the aforementioned village of Bakchias. My kinsman Teapnamis, son of Petobastis, grandson of Teapnamis, his mother being […]…, assistant (?), from the same village, died in the month of Tybi of the present 16th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord.
Therefore I ask that he be entered in the list of the deceased, as in similar cases […]
[…]
The word read as 'hyperetes' (assistant, attendant) follows a damaged mother's name and is uncertain. Such notices were sent to officials so the deceased could be removed from the poll-tax rolls.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Death Certificate). 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.2.1.43
[… ? lines lost …] […]ἀπὸ τῆς προγεγραμμένης κώμης Βακχιάδος. ὁ συνγενής μου Τεαπνᾶμις Πετοβάστεως τοῦ Τεαπνάμεως μητρὸς […]…ε…οκιος ὑπερετὴς ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ Τῦβι μηνὶ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ιϛ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου. διὸ ἀξιῶ ταγῆναι αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ τῶν τετελ…