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Wet-nursing contract for a house-born slave child TM 11951Arsinoites (?)102 - 114

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A wet-nursing contract in which a woman, with her husband as guardian and co-surety, agrees to nurse a house-born slave child with her own milk for two years and then care for it for six more months, in return for monthly payments in money and olive oil. It dates from the reign of Trajan (AD 102-114), probably from the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

Year […] of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, Panemos 14, Pachon 14, in […] of the […] division of the Arsinoite nome. […] daughter of (?) Persine (?), whose mother is […], aged about […], with a scar on the big finger of the left hand, and her husband and guardian […] whose mother is […]nes, Persian of the epigone, aged about […], scar […], mutual sureties for payment, acknowledge to […] whose mother is […], aged about […], with a scar on the right shin, acting with her guardian […] whose mother is […], aged about […]-six, with a scar on the nose […], that […] has received from […] to nurse with her own milk for 2 years from the month Pachon of the present […] year of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, and to look after for 6 months, the house-born offspring named […] born of the slave woman belonging to […], receiving as wages from […] for nursing and clothing […] silver drachmas […] each month […] and 2 kotylai of olive oil […] [… ? lines lost …]

Much of the text, including the two-year term, the wages and the oil allowance, is restored from the standard formulas of such nursing contracts. The date is given in both the Macedonian (Panemos) and Egyptian (Pachon) calendars.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ammenvertrag). 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 · 102 - 114 · Arsinoites (?)

ἔτους[…]Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Νέρουα Τραιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Δακικοῦ Πανέμου τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ Παχὼν ιδ, ἐν[…]τῆς[…] μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. ὁμολογοῦσι[…]Περσίνη, μητρὸς[…]ὡς ἐτῶν[…], οὐλὴ δακτύλῳ ἀριστερῶι μεγάλῳ, καὶ ὁ αὑτῆς ἀνὴρ καὶ κύριος[…] […]μητρὸς[…]νης Πέρσης …