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Receipt for a share of a paternal inheritance between brothers TM 10939Kasr el BanâtA.D. 78

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A receipt drawn up at Euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome in AD 78, in which Maron the elder acknowledges receiving 20 silver drachmas from his younger half-brother Onnophris. The money was Maron's share under the division of property made by their late father Onnophris son of Aphrodisios during his lifetime, and Maron renounces any further claim.

In English machine translation

[recto] In the eleventh year of Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus, month of Neos Sebastos 7, at Euhemeria in the division of Themistes of the Arsinoite nome. Maron the elder, son of Onnophris, about 40 years old, with a scar on his forehead, acknowledges to his own brother by the same father, Onnophris, about 18 years old, without distinguishing marks, that he, Maron, the acknowledging party, has received from Onnophris 20 silver drachmas forthwith, from hand to hand, out of the house, which were assigned by their deceased father Onnophris son of Aphrodisios according to the division which he made for us while living; and that neither Maron nor anyone on his behalf makes or will make any claim against his brother Onnophris or anyone on his behalf, nor will proceed against him concerning anything relating to this receipt, and nothing […] agreement […] me, Maron. Subscribers: Pappion son of Chares, about 40 years old, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand; Heron son of Pappion, about 52 years old, with a scar on the little finger of the left hand. (2nd hand) I, Maron the elder, son of Onnophris, acknowledge that I have received from my brother by the same father Onnophris forthwith, from hand to hand, out of the house, 20 silver drachmas, which were assigned to me according to the division by my deceased father Onnophris son of Aphrodisios, and I make no claim nor will make any claim, as stated above. Pappion son of Chares wrote on his behalf, as he writes slowly. I, Maron the elder, son of Onnophris, have received and make no claim, as stated above. (3rd hand) I, Onnophris son of Onnophris, […] to me the receipt, as stated above. Heron son of Pappion wrote on his behalf […] letters. In the eleventh year of Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus, month of Neos Sebastos 7, registered through […] at the record office of Euhemeria. [verso] Receipt of Maron to Onnophris. […]

Neos Sebastos was an honorific month name used in Roman Egypt, corresponding to Hathyr. 'Same father' brothers (homopatrios) were children of the same father, possibly by different mothers.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for a Share of an Inheritance). 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 · 3. Nov. 78 · Euhemeria (Arsinoites)

[r] ἔτους ἑνδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Οὐεσπασιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ, μηνὸς Νέου Σεβαστοῦ ζ, ἐν Εὐημερείᾳ τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογεῖ Μάρων πρεσβύτερος Ὀννώφρεως ὡς ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα οὐλὴ μετώπωι τῶι ἑαυτοῦ ὁμοπατρίωι ἀδελφῶι Ὀννώφρι ὡς ἐτῶν δέκα ὀκτὼ ἀσήμωι, …