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Divorce agreement between Aphrodisia and Ptolemaios TM 10294Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)25. Febr. - 26. März 177

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A divorce agreement drawn up at Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoite nome) in AD 177 between Aphrodisia, acting with her guardian Achillas, and her former husband Ptolemaios of Karanis. They declare the marriage dissolved, Aphrodisia acknowledges return of her dowry and personal property, and both renounce further claims, including any by Ptolemaios on land she bought herself.

In English machine translation

Year 17 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Commodus Augustus, Armeniacus, Medicus, Parthicus, Germanicus, Sarmaticus, Maximi, in the month Artemisios-Phamenoth, at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome. They mutually acknowledge, Aphrodisia daughter of Sabinus son of Mysthes, her mother being Ammo[…], from the metropolis, aged about 31, with a scar on the left eyebrow, with her guardian Achillas son of Horigenes son of Herakleides, his mother being […], from the Thesmophorion quarter, aged about 52, lame […], and her former husband Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios son of Sokrates, his mother being Soeris, from the village of Karanis, aged about 37, with a scar on the left knee, that they have dissolved the marriage which existed between them […] and that each of them is free to manage his or her own affairs as he or she chooses; and that Aphrodisia may join herself to another husband without being liable to any claim in any way; and that she has received from Ptolemaios the dowry in gold and silver which she brought to him and all the parapherna; and that they will make no claim against each other concerning anything pertaining to the marriage ⟦nor concerning⟧, and that Ptolemaios will make no claim concerning what Aphrodisia alone bought in the plain of Psenarpsenesis […], a quarter aroura of olive grove, and another 1 aroura of grain land near the village of Kerkesoucha […] […] […] from former times up to the present day, in any way.

Parapherna are the wife's personal belongings brought into the marriage beyond the dowry proper, which remained hers.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Divorce Agreement). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. Febr. - 26. März 177 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

ἔτους ἑπτακαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Λουκίου Αὐρηλίου Κομμόδου Σεβαστοῦ Ἀρμενιακῶν Μηδικῶν Παρθικῶν Γερμανικῶν Σαρματικῶν Μεγίστων, μηνὸς Ἀρτεμισίου Φαμενώθ, ἐν Πτολεμαίδι Εὐεργέτιδι τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογ…