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Divorce agreement between Kronion and his sister-wife Taorsenouphis TM 11574Tebtynis (Arsinoites)30. Aug. 138

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Copy of a divorce agreement made at Tebtynis in AD 138 between Kronion and Taorsenouphis, a full brother and sister who had lived in unwritten marriage, with their father as her guardian. Kronion must return within 60 days gold and silver jewellery he had taken and sold, both renounce further claims, and their three children are named.

In English machine translation

Copy of an agreement. Year 2 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, month of Sebastos 2, at Tebtynis in the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome. They mutually agree, Kronion son of Kronion, aged about 54, with a scar on the left forearm, and his former wife, who is also his sister by the same father and the same mother, Taorsenouphis, aged about 50, without distinguishing marks, she with as guardian the father of them both, Kronion son of Cheos, aged about 76, with a scar on the right hand, that they have dissolved the marriage with one another which had existed between them without a written contract, and that each of them is free to manage his or her own affairs as he or she chooses, and that Taorsenouphis may live with another husband without being open to any challenge in any way. And as to the jewellery which all the aforementioned allege that Kronion took away from his sister Taorsenouphis, of 1 mina and 10 quarters of gold and of uncoined silver weighing 28 staters, and turned into money for his own use, the agreeing party Kronion is obliged to return it to his sister Taorsenouphis in equivalent pieces of jewellery within 60 days from the present day, Taorsenouphis having the right of execution against her brother Kronion and against all his property. As for the other matters pertaining to the marriage, they shall not proceed against one another on any pretext, nor shall Kronion proceed against Taorsenouphis concerning what she bought in any way whatever, because she paid the price of these things from her own funds, nor indeed concerning any other matter at all, written or unwritten, up to the present day. There have been born to them from one another sons Sasopis and Pakebkis and a daughter Tephorsaein.

The couple were full siblings, a form of marriage attested in Roman Egypt. Sebastos is an honorific month name corresponding to Thoth.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Copia di contratto di divorzio). 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 · 30. Aug. 138 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

ἀντίγραφον ὁμολογίας. ἔτους β Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ β ἐν Τεβτύνι τῆς Πολέμωνος μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοΐτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογοῦσιν ἀλλήλοις Κρονίων Κρονίωνος ὡς ἐτῶν νδ οὐλὴ πήχει ἀριστερῶι καὶ ἡ γενομένη αὐτοῦ γυνή, οὖσα δὲ καὶ ὁμοπάτριος καὶ ὁμομήτριος ἀδελφή, Ταο…