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In the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, in the month of Germaniceius, on the new moon of Pachon, on the island of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Herakleides region of the Arsinoite nome. Horos, son of Tesenouphis, a Persian of the epigone, forty-three years old, with a scar on his left calf, acknowledges to his own sister, Eria, thirty-five years old, living with her and married to her husband, who bears a scar, and their son, Pekysios, son of Horos, twenty-two years old, has a scar on the left shin, to receive from her, the acknowledging party, immediately, through his hands, silver as a dowry capital, twenty drachmas. Therefore, they shall live together as married, as they did before marriage, with Horos providing all necessary supports and clothing, and other things owed to a wife according to his means whether residing or traveling, during their time together without reproach. If separated, Horos shall return to Eria the dowry within thirty days from when it is demanded, and if not returned, the action shall belong to Eria from both Horos and all his belongings, as though by judgment. The mother of the marrying parties, Satabus, daughter of Horos of Haryotes, sixty-five years old, with a birthmark on her right cheek, with her sister, Tanefrimos, son of Stotoetes of Eria, acknowledges her permission after death to her children Stotoetes, Horos, and daughters Soueris and Eria, and the children of her late other son Tesenouphis, Stotoetes and Horos, allowing her son Stotoetes a house and courtyard from the south part and a quarter of another house, previously Psentapiamis’s, and a fifteenth of another house and courtyard, previously Patulotos’s. Likewise, she grants her son Horos and daughter Eria, equally, half a part of a new house and courtyard from the south part, and its annexes, everything laid secure. To her sons Stotoetes and Horos, she grants a bare piece of land within the precinct of the great Soknopaiou god, and to the daughter, Eria, her feminine apparel, and to daughter Soueris, equally, with the remaining half of the house previously noted as Psentapiamis’s, also granting them the management and disposal of all her dowry and property freely without any hindrance during her life. Horos Stotoetes, twenty-four years old, with a scar on his forehead in the middle, wrote for him due to his illiteracy. Eria, daughter of Tesenouphis, with her son Pysis, son of Horos, has given the mentioned dowry of twenty drachmae of silver as laid out. This