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A fragmentary nursing contract from Oxyrhynchus, dated in the first year of Galba (late August AD 68). Themistokles, also called Eileithyios, acknowledges an arrangement with his freedwoman Apollonarion, acting with her husband Dionysios as guardian, concerning her nursing of a foundling slave child named Sarap[…] that he had entrusted to her, with reference to earlier registration in the Oxyrhynchus record office under Nero.
"Foundling" renders kopriairetos, literally "picked up from the dung-heap", a term for exposed infants raised as slaves. The text appears to settle or acknowledge the completion of an earlier nursing agreement registered in Nero's fifth and sixth years.
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.
ἔτους πρώτου Λουκίου Λειβίου Σουλπικίου Γάλβα Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος μηνὸς Καισαρείου ἐπαγομένων[…]ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαίδος. ὁμολογεῖ Θεμιστοκλῆς Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Θεμιστοκλέους[…] ὁ καὶ Εἰλείθυιος μητρὸς Τριμορίας Ἱλαρᾶ τοῦ[…]τῇ ἑαυτοῦ ἀπελευθέρᾳ Ἀπολλωναρίῳ μετὰ κυρ…
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