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p.mich.3.169 29. Apr. 145Karanis (Arsinoites)

A Birth Certificate of Illegitimate Twins via HGV-meta

Declaration of birth of illegitimate twins by Sempronia Gemella. A Latin wax-tablet declaration, with a Greek subscription, in which the Roman woman Sempronia Gemella, acting with her guardian Gaius Iulius Saturninus, attests before seven witnesses the birth of illegitimate twin sons, Sarapion and Socration, by an unknown father. She records it privately because Roman law barred illegitimate children from the official birth register. Drawn up at Alexandria on 29 April AD 145. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Latin · Latin

Transcription

[4] Marci Vibi Pollionis Marci Octavi Sereni Lucii Aemili Maximi Lucii Caponi Saturnini Cai Aebuti Saturnini Cai Vibievii Crassi Marci Holconi Ampissi Sempronia Gemella tutore auctore Caio Iulio Saturnino testata est eos qui signaturi erant se enixam esse ex incerto patre XII Kalendas Apriles quae proximae fuerunt natos masculinos geminos eosque vocitari Marcos SemproniosSpfilios Sarapionem [1] et Socrationem ideoque se has testationes interposuisse dixit quia lex Aelia Sentia et Papia Poppaea spurios spuriasve in albo profiteri vetat de ea re eodem exemplo bis tabulae scriptae sunt actum Alexandriae adAegyptum III Kalendas Maias ImperatoreCaesare Tito Aelio Hadriano Antonino Augusto Pio IIII Marco Aurelio Caesare II consulibus anno VIII Imperatoris Caesaris Titi Aeli Hadriani Antonini Augusti Pii mense Pachon die IIII Σεμπρωνία Γέμελλα μετὰ κυρίου Γαίου Ἰουλίου Σατορνίλου ἐμαρτυροποιησάμην υἱοὺς δύο διδύμους γεγεννῆσθαι ἐξ ἀδήλου πατρὸς τούτους τε ἐπικεκλῆσθαι Μάρκους Σεμπρωνίους Σουρίου υἱοὺς Σαραπίωνα καὶ Σωκρατίωνα καθὼς πρόκειται. Γάιος Ἰούλιος Σατορνῖλος ἐπεγράφην αὐτῆς κύριος καὶ ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς μὴ εἰδυίας γράμματα. [2] Sempronia Gemella tutore auctore Caio Iulio Saturnino testata est eos qui signaturi erant se enixam esse ex incerto patre XII Kalendas Apriles quae proximae fuerunt natos masculinos geminos eosque vocitari Marcos Sempronios Spurii filios Sarapionem et Socrationem ideoque se has testationes interposuisse dixit quia lex [3] Aelia Sentia et Papia Poppaea spurios spuriasve in albo profiteri vetat de ea re eodem exemplo bis tabulae scriptae sunt actum Alexandriae ad Aegyptum III Kalendas Maias Imperatore Caesare Tito Aelio Hadriano Antonino Augusto Pio IIII Marco Aurelio Caesare II consulibus anno VIII Imperatoris Caesaris Titi Aeli Hadriani Antonini Augusti Pii mense Pachon die IIII

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[4] (Seals) of Marcus Vibius Pollio, Marcus Octavius Serenus, Lucius Aemilius Maximus, Lucius Caponius Saturninus, Gaius Aebutius Saturninus, Gaius Vibievius Crassus, Marcus Holconius Ampissus. Sempronia Gemella, with her guardian Gaius Iulius Saturninus authorizing, declared before those who were about to seal that on the 12th day before the Kalends of April last past (21 March) she gave birth, by an unknown father, to male twins, and that they are called Marcus Sempronius Sarapion and Marcus Sempronius Socration, sons of Spurius, [1] and she said that she had made this declaration for the reason that the Lex Aelia Sentia and the Lex Papia Poppaea forbid the registration of illegitimate sons or daughters in the official register. Concerning this matter two tablets were written to the same effect. Done at Alexandria by Egypt, on the 3rd day before the Kalends of May, in the consulship of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius for the 4th time and Marcus Aurelius Caesar for the 2nd time, in year 8 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, month Pachon, day 4. I, Sempronia Gemella, with my guardian Gaius Iulius Saturnilus, have made the declaration that two twin sons were born to me by an unknown father and that they have been named Marcus Sempronius Sarapion and Marcus Sempronius Socration, sons of Spurius, as stated above. I, Gaius Iulius Saturnilus, was registered as her guardian and wrote on her behalf, since she does not know letters. [2] Sempronia Gemella, with her guardian Gaius Iulius Saturninus authorizing, declared before those who were about to seal that on the 12th day before the Kalends of April last past she gave birth, by an unknown father, to male twins, and that they are called Marcus Sempronius Sarapion and Marcus Sempronius Socration, sons of Spurius, and she said that she had made this declaration for the reason that the Lex [3] Aelia Sentia and the Lex Papia Poppaea forbid the registration of illegitimate sons or daughters in the official register. Concerning this matter two tablets were written to the same effect. Done at Alexandria by Egypt, on the 3rd day before the Kalends of May, in the consulship of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius for the 4th time and Marcus Aurelius Caesar for the 2nd time, in year 8 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, month Pachon, day 4.

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