Wet-nursing contract for a slave infant of Lucius Veteranius Philostratos TM 16328Alexandria27. Dez. 70 - 25. Jan. 71

[… lines lost …] […] […] […] […] […] […] Julius (?) […] […] agrees: Dionysia will nurse and suckle [outside at her own home in] Alexandria [for a period of twenty months] from Tybi of the present third [year of Imperator] Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, the [foundling] male slave [infant at the breast] which Lucius Veteranius Philostratos has entrusted to her, his own, whose name is […], at a wage [for the milk and the nursing, together wi]th oil and […] […] and Dionysia [has received] from […] […] […] each month […] drachmas […] Dionysia from Lucius by hand […] to nurse the same […] […] 30 drachmas of silver […] […] 7 (?) drachmas […] months […] her, being regularly paid the remaining monthly [nursing fees, shall take] her […] not spoiling […] [nor sleeping with a man nor] becoming pregnant […] [nor suckling another] child […] […] […] […] […] except for evident death [and not to abandon the nursing] within the period […] […] […] […] […] what she has received and whatever [she receives in addition] […] with half as much again, and the [damages and expenses and a penalty of] […]hundred drachmas of silver, [the right of execution belonging to] Philostratos both upon [Dionysia and upon] Ision and upon any one of them he [chooses and upon all] their property, as if [by legal judgment. If Dionysia] fulfils everything, Lucius [Philostratos shall not take] the child away within the [period, and shall supply her] the monthly nursing fees, [or else he too shall pay the same penalty] […] [… lines lost …]