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Receipt for an additional dowry payment from Taorsenouphis to her husband Haryotes TM 12148Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptApril-March, 46 A.D.

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A receipt in which Haryotes son of Herodion acknowledges receiving from his wife Taorsenouphis 100 silver drachmas as an addition to her dowry, promising to repay it if they separate, while their earlier marriage contract remains valid. Her relative Eutychos signs as her guardian because she is illiterate. Written in the Arsinoite nome (Tebtynis) in AD 46.

In English machine translation

Copy for issue (?), Year 6 of Claudius, month of Germanikios. I, Haryotes son of Herodion, Persian of the epigone, acknowledge that I have received from my wife, with whom I was formerly and am now living, Taorsenouphis daughter of Aphrodisios, forthwith from hand to hand out of the house, as an additional dowry upon herself, 100 drachmas of coined silver; and I will treat her as a wedded wife, and if a separation from one another occurs I will return the aforesaid 100 drachmas of silver. And there remains valid for you, Taorsenouphis, the contract of maintenance which you hold from me, with my parents as co-guarantors, concerning another dowry in money and parapherna, and all the stipulations set out in it remain valid; and I will do everything as stated above. I, Taorsenouphis daughter of Aphrodisios, with my guardian, her relative Eutychos son of Orsenouphis: the agreement has been made with me as stated above. I, Eutychos, wrote on her behalf because she does not know letters, and I have signed as her guardian.

"Persian of the epigone" was a legal status designation in Roman Egypt, not an ethnic one. Germanikios was the honorific name then used for the month Pachon.

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 Part of a Dowry). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

Receipt for Part of a Dowry

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 656 · April-March, 46 A.D. · Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Subscription to a deed by which Haryotes, son of Herodion, acknowledges the receipt of 100 silver drachmai from his wife Taorsenouphis, daughter of Aphrodisios, as an additional gift beyond the dowry and the parapherna received previously; in case of separation the money is to be…

p.mich.5.339

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 26. Apr. - 25. Mai 46 · Arsinoites

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