Deed of divorce
The document is an agreement to dissolve a suggraphie trophitis marriage. The youth of the parties of the divorce is noteworthy; the husband is 19, the wife presumably younger.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20984
Deed of divorce dissolving a trophitis marriage TM 20984UnknownA.D. 70-79
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A fragmentary deed of divorce from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum) in the reign of Vespasian, dated Tybi 25. Didyme, with her guardian, and her husband, apparently aged 19, together with other parties, declare that they have dissolved their marriage, which had been based on a contract of the trophitis type, and that each is free to remarry.
In English machine translation
Year […] of Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, Tybi 25,
at […] of the […] division of the Arsinoite nome. They mutually acknowledge,
Didyme […] aged about […], with a scar on the left shin, with her guardian
[…] son of […], aged about 41, with a scar on the knee,
[…] and […] son of […], aged about 19, with a scar […]
[…] and […], aged about 61, with a scar […]
[…] and […] son of […], aged about 40
[one, with a scar on the knee], […] in the presence of […] son of Kronion, the four of them, Didyme
[and […], that they have dissolved] their life together with one another,
[which had been established for them by a contract] of trophitis, executed through [the]
[same record office in the] […] year of Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus,
[…and that it is permitted to each] of them […]
[…and for Didyme] to be joined to a husband [whom]
[she wishes …] […] to Didyme […] one another […]
[…]
A syngraphe trophitis was a marriage contract associated with a girl raised in the household (a foster-daughter), so the family members appearing as parties may be her foster kin. The record gives the place as unknown; the Arsinoite nome rests on the editor's restoration.
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.
p.fouad.1.34
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