Wet-nursing contract extending the service of the slave Gnaia TM 11948Arsinoites

Fragment of a wet-nursing contract from the Arsinoite nome, in which a woman undertakes to provide her slave Gnaia to nurse and suckle a child for a further 6 months from the month Tybi. The slave had already nursed the child for an earlier period.

In English machine translation

The contract is an extension: Gnaia is to continue nursing for 6 more months beyond a period she had already served. The verb translated 'reared' (etithenei) refers to the care of an infant by a nurse.

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