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Acknowledgment of receipt of a dowry for the marriage of Chrates and Kroniaina TM 12153Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt54-55 A.D.[?]

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An acknowledgment of receipt of a dowry in a marriage settlement between Chrates and Kroniaina, from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome, about AD 54-55. Chrates and his parents Eutychos and Theokla acknowledge receiving from the bride's brother Horion 2,160 silver drachmas, jewellery, bronze and tin household items, clothing and a five-year-old slave girl, and promise to return the dowry in case of divorce.

In English machine translation

[Chrates son of Eutychos and Eutycho]s son of Chrates, the two Persians of the epigone, and the wife of Eutychos and mother of me, Chrates, Theokla daughter of Kronion, Persian, with her guardian Eutychos, the three of us mutual sureties for payment, acknowledge [that we have received from Horion] […] on the spot as dowry on behalf of his sister Kroniaina 2,160 drachmas of coined silver, and as parapherna without valuation a gold chain […] of 4 quarters, both of the gold of the Alexandrian standard and of local gold, a gold earring of 4 quarters, a gold crescent of 3 quarters, and 6 head(?) […], and a pair of silver bracelets of the weight of 20 drachmas of unstamped silver, and a silver bracelet (?) of the weight of 8 drachmas of unstamped silver, and a silver spoon of the weight of 4 drachmas, and bronze vessels […] and a soap box and a folding mirror and 6 small water jars, all of bronze, and women's utensils of tin of the weight of 12 minas, and a cypress-wood chest […] [and] 3 women's [robes], one white, the second ivy-coloured, the third scarlet, and 10 cloaks of mixed colours; and as a further gift without valuation, from the [slaves belonging to him], a house-born slave girl named Ammounous, born of the slave Thaubas, aged 5 years, whom Horion will hand over healthy and unblemished in the month Kaisareios of the fifteenth [year of Tiberius Cl]audius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator. And he (Chrates) shall treat Kroniaina as a wedded wife, and if a separation occurs we shall return the dowry and the parapherna. And the [two, Eutychos and Theokla,] agree to allot to Chrates himself, after the death of Eutychos, a share from the property belonging to Eutychos.

The text is an unfinished subscription to the marriage contract. Parapherna are the bride's personal goods brought into the marriage beside the dowry proper; 'Persians of the epigone' is a legal status label with no exact English equivalent.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Acknowledgment of the Receipt 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.

Acknowledgment of the Receipt of a Dowry

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 719 · 54-55 A.D.[?] · Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Unfinished subscription to a marriage settlement between Kroniaina and Chrates, son of Eutychos and Theokla; the dowry, including the gift of a young slave, is paid by the brother of the bride, Horion, and is received by Chrates and his parents, who together accept responsibility…

p.mich.5.343

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 54-55 A.D.[?] · Arsinoites

Χράτης Εὐτύχου καὶ Εὔτυχος Χράτου οἱ δύο Πέρσαι τῆς ἐπιγονῆς καὶ ἡ τοῦ Εὐτύχου γυνὴ ἐμοῦ δὲ τοῦ Χράτου μήτηρ Θεωκλᾶ Κρονίωνος Περσίνη μετὰ κυρίου αὐτοῦ Εὐτύχου οἱ τρεῖς ἀλλήλων ἔγγυοι εἰς ἔκτισιν ὁμολογοῦμεν ἔχειν παρὰ Ὡρίωνος[…] παραχρῆμα φερνὴν ὑπὲρ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ἀδελφῆς Κρονιένια…