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Death notice of a katoikos submitted by his minor son through a guardian TM 9641Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)27. Dez. 159 - 26. Jan. 160
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A notice of death addressed to Timagenes, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, by the minor Dionysodoros acting through his guardian Isidoros, reporting that his father, a katoikos, died long ago and asking that he be entered in the register of the dead. It was written at Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) in Tybi of year 23 of Antoninus Pius.
In English machine translation
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[…] sheet 71, of the class […]
[…] to Isio (?) […]
To Timagenes, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome,
from Dionysodoros, [a minor], through his guardian Isidoros […], a katoikos of the 6475 Greek men, registered in the quarter of Moeris. My father I[…]rion, son of Dionysodoros son of Herakleides, his mother being Heraïs, […] assistant (?), katoikos, died long ago. Therefore I submit this so that he may be entered in the list of the dead, as is done in similar cases.
I, Dionysodoros, a minor, through my guardian Isidoros, have submitted this as stated above.
Year 23 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Tybi […]
[…] to the scribes of the metropolis […]
[…]
The 6475 Greek men were the privileged settler (katoikos) class of the Arsinoite nome. The opening lines are a filing note giving the sheet number in an official roll; this is one of two death notices on the 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.2.1.48
πγ …κα …[…] κολλημ οα τάξεως […] …ξη Ἰσίω συνγρ […] Τιμαγένει βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοίτου παρὰ Διονυσοδώρου ἀφήλικος διʼ ἐπιτρόπου Ἰσιδώρου […] κατοίκου τῶν Ϛυοε ἀνδρῶν Ἑλλήνων ἀναγραφομένου ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Μοήρεως· ὁ πατήρ μου Ἰ[…] ρίων Διονυσοδώρου τοῦ Ἡρακλείδου μητρὸς Ἡραίδος ……