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Deed of divorce between Thaesis and Petosarapis TM 20537Oxyrhynchos29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 96

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A deed of divorce from Oxyrhynchus dated to Domitian's 16th year (AD 96). Thaesis, with a guardian, acknowledges to her former husband Petosarapis the return of her 400-drachma dowry, cancels their marriage contract of year 14, and both parties renounce further claims against each other.

In English machine translation

Year 16 of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, month of Germanikeios, at Oxyrhynchus city in the Thebaid. Thaesis daughter of Thonis son of Amithonis, her mother being Sintheus, with her guardian, her paternal uncle (?) Onnophris son of Onnophris son of Pammenes, his mother being Taarthonis, acknowledges to her former husband Petosarapis son of Thompekysis son of Sarapion, his mother being Sinthonis, all from Oxyrhynchus city, in the street, that she has received from him 400 drachmas of imperial silver coin as capital, which she brought to him for herself as dowry, his mother Sinthonis daughter of Petosarapis son of […] acting as surety, according to a contract of marriage through the record office in Oxyrhynchus city on the epagomenal days of the fourteenth year of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, the copy of which she has handed back to him on the spot, crossed through for cancellation, because the divorce of the marriage has taken place; and that she neither makes nor will make any claim against him nor will proceed against him either about the foregoing or about parapherna […] to have received, or about any other matter whatsoever up to the present day. And Petosarapis himself acknowledges in the same street that he neither makes nor will make any claim nor will proceed against Thaesis or those acting for her about anything at all up to the present day […] […]

Germanikeios was Domitian's honorific name for the month Thoth. Parapherna were the wife's personal goods brought into the marriage apart from the dowry; 'in the street' refers to a public, open-air execution of the agreement.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 96 · Oxyrhynchos

ἔτους ἑκκαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Δομιτιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ, μηνὸς Γερμανικοῦ ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαίδος. ὁμολογεῖ Θαῆσις Θώνιος τοῦ Ἀμιθώνιος μητρὸς Σινθεῦτος μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ πατρῳοῦ Ὀννώφριος Ὀννώφριος τοῦ Παμμένους μητρὸς Τααρθώνιος τῷ γενομένῳ αὐτῆς ἀνδρὶ Πετ…