p.hamb.1.101
[… ? lines lost …] ἡ δεῖνα … εὐδοκῶ τοῖς προκιμένοις Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Σερῆνος ὁ καὶ Δῖος καὶ ὡς χρηματίζω ἐπιγέγραμμαι τῆς μητρός μου κατὰ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἔθη κύριος ὡς πρόκιται.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21055
Subscriptions to a contract with a son acting as his mother's guardian TM 21055unbekannt218 - 222
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The closing subscriptions of a contract: a woman, whose name is lost, declares her consent to the terms, and her son Marcus Aurelius Serenus also called Dios signs as her guardian under Roman custom. It dates to AD 218-222.
In English machine translation
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[I, so-and-so] … consent to the foregoing.
I, Marcus Aurelius Serenus also called Dios, and however I am styled, have signed as guardian of my mother according to the customs of the Romans, as aforesaid.
The guardian (kyrios) was the male representative a woman needed in order to make legal transactions; here the son acts in that role "according to the customs of the Romans." The body of the contract is lost, so its subject is unknown.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Unterschriften einer Vertragsurkunde). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.