One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11739

Acknowledgement of payment and cession of shares in a slave girl among siblings TM 11739Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)ca. 17. März 151

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Copy of an agreement in which Stotoetis acknowledges receiving from his sisters Taouetis and Tasisoeis each one fifth of a debt of 840 silver drachmas owed to him by their mother, and cedes to each a fifth share of his rights in the mother's slave girl Taorsenouphis. It comes from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome, around March AD 151.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] to his sisters by the same father [and the same mother, Taouetis, aged about 45, with a scar on the right calf, and Tasisoeis], aged about 35, with a [scar on the left calf, each with a guardian: for] Taouetis her [husband Stotoetis] son of Satabous [son of Stotoetis, aged about ..., with a scar on the right calf], and for Tasis[oeis her kinsman Stotoetis son of Harpagathes, aged about ...], with a scar on the left cheek, [both], that the party making this agreement has received from them the fifth part [falling] to each of what their mother owes to the aforementioned son Stotoetis under an agreement executed in the present year in the month Sebastos on the 20th, of a total of 840 silver drachmas; and that the party making this agreement, Stotoetis, will make no claim against his sisters concerning what he has received as stated above, but he concedes to his sisters each a fifth part of the right he holds in the slave girl belonging to their mother, whose name is Taorsenouphis, (on condition that) the mother keep her unalienated and unencumbered, since the agreement was made on these terms. Writer of the subscription: Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, aged about 25, with a scar in the middle of the forehead.

The opening is lost and much of the parties' descriptions is restored from a duplicate copy. Sebastos is an honorific Roman-era name for the month Thoth.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · ca. 17. März 151 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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