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Renunciation of claims by two sisters in favour of their sister Soeris TM 12162Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt46 A.D. (January 25, 46 A.D.[?])

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Subscription to a contract in which two sisters, Thenmenches and Thaesis, acting with their guardians, give up for a money settlement all claims to house plots in Tebtynis and household property that their mother Soeris gave to their third sister Soeris. The renunciation concerns property covered by Soeris' maintenance contract with her husband Eutychos, and was written for the illiterate parties in AD 46.

In English machine translation

Year 6 of Claudius. To be issued (?) […] Thenmenches and Thaesis, both daughters of Akes, each with her guardian, Thenmenches with her son Horos son of Harmiysis and Thaesis with her husband Onnophris son of Nepheros, we acknowledge that we renounce in favour of our aforementioned full sister, by the same father and the same mother, Soeris, all claim to the house plots in Tebtynis belonging to Soeris, which were conveyed to her by the mother of us three, Soeris daughter of Patynis, while still living, and to the furniture and household goods and debts owed, by the contract of maintenance which you made with your husband Eutychos son of Soterichos in the present sixth year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, in the month Neos Sebastos, on the 6th, through the same record office; and that neither we nor those acting for us will proceed against the aforementioned Soeris or those acting for her concerning these things or concerning any other matter whatsoever, written or unwritten, because we have been satisfied by Soeris with a money settlement; the aforementioned Eutychos son of Soterichos, husband and guardian of Soeris, who has signed in addition, suffering no loss in respect of what the aforementioned Horos together with his wife owes him under an agreement of deposit, as stated above. Dionysios son of Maron wrote for them because they do not know letters.

A 'contract of maintenance' (syngraphe trophitis) was a marriage-related agreement in which the wife's property was handed over to the husband in return for her support. The contract may also be entered in the Tebtynis record office register.

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

Release of Property

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 1279 · 46 A.D. (January 25, 46 A.D.[?]) · Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Subscription to a contract by which two sisters, Thenmenches and Thaesis, in return for a money consideration, relinquish their claims to certain property given as a marriage portion to a third sister, Soeris, by their mother, who is also named Soeris (this contract is perhaps re…

p.mich.5.352

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Arsinoites

ϛ ἔτους Κλαυδίου. ἐκδόσιμον … λ. Θενμενχῆς καὶ Θαῆσις αἱ δύο Ἀκήους μετὰ κυρίων ἑκατέρων τῆς μὲν Θενμενχῆτος τοῦ αὐτῆς υἱοῦ Ὥρου τοῦ Ἁρμιύσιος καὶ τῆς Θαήσιος τοῦ ἀνδρὸς Ὀννώφριος τοῦ Νεφερῶτος ὁμολογοῦμεν ἐξίστασθαι τῇ προγεγραμμένῃ ἡμῶν ὁμοπατρίῳ καὶ ὁμομητρίῳ ἀδελφῇ Σοήρει περ…