A legal agreement from Ptolemais Euergetis in the reign of Severus Alexander in which a woman from the village of Theogonis, acting with her husband Aurelius Hermias as guardian, declares that she has received her property from her former guardian Aurelius Sarapammon and will bring no claims against him concerning his guardianship during her orphanhood. Sarapammon and his mother Tyrannis also take part, and signatures follow.
In English machine translation
[Year …] of Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius [Felix Augustus], […] 9, at Ptolemais Euergetis of the Arsinoite [nome. …] acknowledges […]
[…] her mother being Lousia, from the village of Theogonis, with her guardian […]
[…] her husband Aurelius Hermias son of Herakles, from the same village […]
[…] to her former guardian during her orphanhood […]
[…] [Aurelius Sarapammon] son of Polion, his mother being Tyrannis, from the same village […]
[…] [aged about …] [with a scar on] the forehead, that she does not and will not bring any charge, nor proceed, [herself] […]
[…] [nor anyone else] against Aurelius Sarapammon concerning any of the matters [relating to the]
[guardianship] […] and that she is satisfied […]
[…] and with the six-monthly accounts that were filed […]
[…] nor of any debt nor of anything at all […]
[…] on the basis of a valid document or any other receipt […]
[…] up to the present day in no way [and] […]
[…] [that] she [has received] her property and from the […]
[…] Aurelia Tyrannis [and Aurelius Sarapammon] […]
[…] acknowledged from the […]
[…] [up to the] present day in no way […]
[…] [that] she [has received] her property and from the […]
[…] their receipts; and both […]
[…] I, Aurelius Sarapammon, have given my pledge [and have written on behalf of my]
[mother …] I, Aurelius Sarapammon, have given my pledge [as stated above.] […]
[…] [from the] village of Theogonis, with her appointed guardian […]
[…] I acknowledge that I bring no charge against the guardian Aurelius [Sarapammon concerning]
[the matters relating to the guardianship] […] but also from this point […]
[…] [that I have received] my property as stated above […]
The woman's own name is lost. The 'six-monthly accounts' were reports a guardian of an orphan regularly filed with the authorities.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Termination of Guardianship). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.