A receipt from Oxyrhynchus, dated 7 September 157 AD, in which two women of Paomis, acting with male guardians, acknowledge payment by Domitius of the agreed wages and expenses for two years of nursing his son Ptollas by their slave Taapis. They confirm the child has been handed back and renounce further claims.
In English machine translation
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with her guardian, her full brother Ischyrion, and Sarapous with her guardian, her cousin Kapiton son of Horigenes, his mother being Demetrous, from the same Paomis,
to Domitius son of […]as, his mother being Apollonia, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, greetings.
We have received from you the agreed nursing wages and all the other expenses for your son Ptollas, his mother being Herakleous, whom our slave Taapis nursed for two years from the 20th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord; and we have handed him over to you on the spot, and we make no claim against you about anything at all up to the present day. This receipt, written in two copies, is valid.
Year 21 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Thoth 10.
I, Ischyrion, the aforementioned, who also wrote the body of the document, have received the nursing wages as stated above, and I wrote on behalf of my sister, who does not know letters.
I, Sarapous daughter of Horion, have received the nursing wages as stated above. I, Kapiton son of Horigas, have signed as guardian of my aunt and wrote on her behalf, as she does not know letters.
The document was written in two copies on the same sheet; the first copy and the opening of the second are lost. Kapiton is called a cousin (anepsios) in the body but calls Sarapous his aunt in his subscription, and his father's name appears as both Horigenes and Horigas.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quietanza di baliatico). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.