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Termination of a wet-nursing contract for the slave child Thallousa TM 18553Alexandria
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An Alexandrian agreement (synchoresis) submitted to the official Protarchos, by which Marcus Julius Felix, a freedman, acknowledges payment from Eugeneia for 12 months of nursing her slave girl Thallousa by his slave woman, ending the earlier wet-nursing contract. He renounces further claims and Eugeneia confirms she has taken the child back.
In English machine translation
To Protarchos
from Eugeneia daughter of […] with her guardian […] and from Marcus Julius Felix, freedman of the patron Gaius Julius Felix […] Epaphroditos.
Marcus agrees that he has received from Eugeneia, by hand, out of the house, the nursing fees and the other expenses for 12 months, for which, according to the agreement executed through the same court in the 26th year of Caesar, Mecheir, her slave child Thallousa was given out to him, to be nursed by his slave woman; and that neither Marcus nor anyone else on his behalf will proceed against Eugeneia concerning the nursing fees, nor proceed against the child herself in any way; otherwise, besides the agreed terms remaining valid, he shall pay back the nursing fees he has received plus one half, and the damages and expenses, and a further 200 silver drachmas, as if by judgment. And Eugeneia has received back the child Thallousa.
We request it. Farewell.
The earlier contract is dated to year 26 of Caesar (Augustus), i.e. 5/4 BC; this document belongs to the same period. A synchoresis was an agreement registered before the Alexandrian court (kriterion) headed by Protarchos.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Aufhebung eines Vertrages über eine Amme, Alexandrien). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
c.pap.gr.1.12
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