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Contract for Wet-Nursing via HGV-meta
Contract for wet-nursing a foundling slave infant. A fragmentary contract in which Aurelia Thermouthis, acting with her husband as guardian, agrees to nurse with her own milk a foundling infant taken up from a dung-heap into slavery, for a period apparently of nine months and a fee in talents. It was written at Kysis in the Great Oasis in the early 4th century AD. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 22606.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- p.bodl.1.169 DDbDP-text Oasis Magna ?, Ägypten; Schreibort4. Nov. 308 (Jahr und Monat unsicher)
- Contract for Wet-Nursing HGV-meta Oasis Magna ?, Ägypten; Schreibort4. Nov. 308 (Jahr und Monat unsicher)
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Αὐρηλία Θερμοῦθις […]…ι…ι…[…]
μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἀνδρὸς Αὐρηλίου […]
Αὐρηλίῳ […] ἀλλοϕύλῳ χαίρειν. […]
… ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν […] ὃ ἀνείρηται
ἀπὸ κοπρίας εἰς δουλείαν βρέϕος ὀνόματι […]
[…]ν πρὸς ἐμὲ …[…]
[…] τιμῆς τῆς συμπεϕωνημένης πρὸς ἀλλήλους […]
[…] τάλαντα δύο α[…]
[…] τὴν Θερμοῦθιν […]
[…] μηνῶν ἐννέα […]
[…]ου χρόνου …[…]
[…]ἡμισείας σου ε[…]
[…]… τοῦ τακτοῦ …[…]
[…]…μενον ἀργύριον […]
[…] ἐξουσίαν σε ἔχειν διοικεῖν […]
[…] τοῦ προκειμένου βρέϕους […]
ἡ ὁμολογία ἥδε ἐϕ’ ὑπογραϕῆς τοῦ καθυπογράϕοντος κυρία ἔστω καὶ βεβαία
καὶ ἔννομος ὡς ἐν δημοσίῳ κατακειμένη καὶ ἐπερωτηθεῖσα ὡμολόγησα.
ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Διοκλητιανοῦ πατρὸς τῶν Αὐγούστων τὸ ι
καὶ Γαλερίου Οὐαλερίου Μαξιμιανοῦ Αὐγούστου τὸ ζ […]
Αὐρηλία Θερμοῦθις ἡ προκειμένη μετ’ ἀνδρὸς Αὐρηλίου […]
[…] τῷ προκειμένῳ Ἀπολλ […][…] χρόνους. ἐὰν ἐντὸς […]
[…]…τα[…]
[…] ἐμὲ θρέψαι τῷ ἰδίῳ γάλακτι […]
[…] καὶ εὐδοκῶ πάσαις ταῖς διαστολαῖς ὡς πρόκειται καὶ ἐπερωτηθεῖσα
ὡμολόγησα. ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς γράμματα μὴ εἰδυίας Αὐρήλιος […]
[…]ερων
ὑπατείας τῆς προκειμένης Μεχειρ α κατ’ Αἰγυπτίους […]Translations (1)
Aurelia Thermouthis […]
with her husband as guardian, Aurelius […]
to Aurelius […], foreigner (?), greetings. […]
[…] from now […] which has been taken up
from the dung-heap into slavery, an infant named […]
[…] to me […]
[…] of the price agreed between us […]
[…] 2 talents […]
[…] Thermouthis […]
[…] 9 months […]
[…] of the time […]
[…] half of you (?) […]
[…] of the fixed […]
[…] silver […]
[…] that you have the right to manage […]
[…] of the aforementioned infant […]
This agreement, with the signature of the undersigned, shall be valid and secure
and lawful as if deposited in a public archive, and having been asked I gave my assent.
In the consulship of our lords Diocletian, father of the Augusti, for the 10th time
and Galerius Valerius Maximianus Augustus for the 7th time […]
I, Aurelia Thermouthis, the aforementioned, with my husband Aurelius […]
[…] to the aforementioned Apol[…] […] the period. If within […]
[…]
[…] that I nurse with my own milk […]
[…] and I consent to all the provisions as set out above, and having been asked
I gave my assent. I, Aurelius […], wrote on her behalf because she does not know letters.
[…]
In the aforementioned consulship, Mecheir 1 according to the Egyptians […]
Connections
Found at
Oasis Magna
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 22606 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.nekr;;41 tier-1
- HGV-Text 22606 tier-1
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