One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9640
Notification of the death of Heron son of Didas to the scribes of the metropolis TM 9640Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)25. Febr. 160
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A death notification addressed to the scribes of the metropolis by Didas son of Heron of the Cilicians' quarter, reporting that his father Heron, a poll-tax payer, died in Mecheir and asking that his name be entered among the deceased. It was filed at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome in AD 160.
In English machine translation
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[…] of the poll-tax, sheet 11, in other places
[…] through the assistant of Chenoboskia, 1
To the scribes of the metropolis,
from Didas son of Heron, his mother being Helene, from the quarter of the Cilicians.
My father, Heron son of Didas son of Heron, his mother being M…sthaios(?), from the same quarter, paying the poll-tax, died in the month of Mecheir of the present 23rd year of Antoninus Caesar the lord. I ask that his name be entered in the list of such persons.
[…]
Year 23 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mecheir 30.
The opening lines are an archival docket giving the document's number and its place in a glued roll (kollema 11) of poll-tax records. This is one of two death notices on the same papyrus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Two Death Certificates). 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.2.1.47
πα […] λαογραφίας κολλήματος ια ἐπὶ ἄλλων τόπων […]…νε διὰ βοηθοῦ Χηνοβοσκίων α γραμματεῦσι μητροπόλεως παρὰ Διδᾶ Ἥρωνος μητρὸς Ἑλένης ἀπὸ ἀμφόδου Κιλίκων ὁ πατήρ μου, Ἥρων Διδᾶ τοῦ Ἥρωνος μητρὸς Μ…σθαιου, ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀμφόδου τελῶν τὴν λαογραφίαν ἐτελεύτησεν τῷ Μεχεὶρ μηνὶ τοῦ …