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c.pap.gr.1.10 4. Nov. 5 v.Chr.Alexandria
Vertrag über eine Amme (τροφῖτις), Alexandrien via HGV-meta
Wet-nursing contract for a slave nurse and a freedwoman's infant. A wet-nursing contract from Alexandria in which Gaius Ignatius Maximus agrees to provide his slave Chrotarion to nurse the infant Pollarous, daughter of Thermoutharion's freedwoman Kallityche, whose milk had failed through illness. The pay is 10 drachmas a month including oil, for 10 months, with strict conditions on the nurse and penalties for breach. Dated 4 November 5 BC. machine translation
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- bgu.4.1109 DDbDP-text Alexandria4. Nov. 5 v.Chr.
- Vertrag über eine Amme (τροφῖτις), Alexandrien HGV-meta Alexandria4. Nov. 5 v.Chr.
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Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
κόλλημα
Πρωτάρχωι
παρὰ Θερμουθαρίου τῆς Εἰρηναίου ἀστῆς μετὰ κυρίου Ἑρμίου
τοῦ Ἀθηνοδώρου καὶ παρὰ Γαίου Ἰγνατίου Μαξίμου. συνχωρεῖ ὁ
ΓάιοςἸγνάτιος Μάξιμος παρασχέσθαι τὴν δούλην αὑτοῦ Χρωτάριον
τροφεύουσαν καὶ θηλάζουσαν τῶι ἰδίῳ αὐτῆς γάλακτι καθαρῷ καὶ
ἀφθόρωι ἔξω παρʼ ἑαυτῶι Γαίωι κατὰ πόλιν ἐπὶ χρόνον μῆνας
δέκα ἀπὸ Ἁθὺρ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἕκτου καὶ εἰκοστοῦ ἔτους Καίσαρος
ὃ ἐνκεχείρικεν αὐτῇ Θερμουθάριον τῆς ἀπελευθέρας αὐτῆς
Καλλιτύχης παιδίον θῆλυ ᾧ ὄνομα Πωλλαροῦς διὰ τὸ τῆς
Καλλιτύχης ἐν ἀσθενείᾳ διατεθείσης διεφθάρθαι τὸ ταύτης
γάλα, μισθοῦ τοῦ ἑσταμένου τοῦ τε γάλακτος καὶ τῆς τροφείας
σὺν ἐλαίωι κατὰ μῆνα δραχμῶν δέκα , ἔσχηκεν δέ ὁ Γάιος παρὰ τῆς
Θερμουθαρίου διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου τὰς συναγομένας τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ
Ἁθὺρ ἕως Τῦβι μηνῶν τριῶν τῶν τροφείων δραχμὰς τριάκοντα ·
εὐτακτούμενον τὸν Γάιον τοῖς ἀπὸ Μεχεὶρ μηνὸς τροφείοις
παρέχεσθαι τὴν δούλην ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν ποιουμένην τήν τε ἑαυτῆς
καὶ τοῦ παιδίου ἐπιμέλειαν, μὴ φθείρουσαν τὸ γάλα μηδʼ ἀνδροκοιτοῦσαν
μηδʼ ἐπικυοῦσαν μηδʼ ἄλλο παιδίον παραθηλάζουσαν, ἅ τε
ἐὰν λάβῃ ἢ πιστευθῇ σῶα συντηρήσειν καὶ ἀποδώσειν ὅταν ἀπαιτῆται
ἢ ἐκτίνειν τὴν ἑκάστου ἀξίαν πλὴν συνφανοῦς ἀπωλείας
ἧς καὶ φανερᾶς γενηθείσης ἀπολελύσθω, καὶ μὴ ἐγλείπειν τὴν τροφείαν
ἐντὸς τοῦ χρόνου. ἐὰν δέ τι παραβαίνῃ ἐκτίνειν ἑαυτὸν ἅτε εἴληφε τροφεῖα
καὶ ἃ ἐὰν λάβῃ σὺν ἡμιολίᾳ καὶ τὰ βλάβη καὶ δαπανήματα καὶ ἄλλας
ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς διακοσίας , τῆς πράξεως γεινομένης καθάπερ
ἐκ δίκης. καὶ τὴν δὲ Θερμουθάριον ἐπιτελούσης τῆς Χρωταρίου
ἕκαστα χορηγεῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν τὰ κατὰ μῆνα τροφεῖα καὶ μὴ
ἀποσπάσειν τὸ παιδίον ἐντὸς τοῦ χρόνου ἢ καὶ αὐτὴν ἔνοχον εἶναι τῷ ἴσῳ
ἐπιτίμωι. παραβαλεῖ δὲ ἡ Χρωτάριον σὺν τῷ παιδίῳ πρὸς τὴν
Θερμουθάριον τοῦ μηνὸς[…]ς. ἀξιοῦμεν.
ἔτους κϛ Καίσαρος Ἁθὺρ ηTranslations (1)
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To Protarchos
from Thermoutharion daughter of Eirenaios, citizen, with her guardian Hermias son of Athenodoros, and from Gaius Ignatius Maximus. Gaius Ignatius Maximus agrees to provide his slave Chrotarion to nurse and suckle with her own milk, pure and uncorrupted, outside, at the house of Gaius himself in the city, for a period of 10 months from Hathyr of the present 26th year of Caesar, the female infant named Pollarous, child of Thermoutharion's freedwoman Kallityche, whom Thermoutharion has entrusted to her because Kallityche, having fallen ill, has had her milk spoiled, at the fixed wage for milk and nursing, with oil, of 10 drachmas per month. Gaius has received from Thermoutharion from hand to hand out of the house the 30 drachmas of nursing wages accruing for the three months from Hathyr to Tybi. Gaius, being paid regularly the nursing wages from the month of Mecheir, is to provide the slave, who from now on is to take care of herself and of the child, not spoiling her milk, nor sleeping with a man, nor becoming pregnant, nor suckling another child alongside, and whatever she receives or is entrusted with she will keep safe and return when it is demanded, or pay the value of each item, except in case of evident loss, from which, when it has been made evident, she shall be released; and she is not to abandon the nursing within the period. If he transgresses in any way, he himself shall pay back the nursing wages he has received and whatever he may receive, with an additional half, and the damages and expenses and a further 200 drachmas of silver, execution being as if by legal judgment. And Thermoutharion, while Chrotarion fulfils everything, is to supply from now on the monthly nursing wages and not to take away the child within the period, or she too shall be liable to the same penalty. Chrotarion shall bring the child to Thermoutharion [...] of the month. We request this.
Year 26 of Caesar, Hathyr 8.
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 18550 primary
- DDbDP-Text c.pap.gr;1;10 tier-1
- HGV-Text 18550 tier-1
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