One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21327

Descriptions of parties to a renunciation of claims to property TM 21327unbekannt

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Fragment from the back of a papyrus listing parties to a document, each described by approximate age and identifying scars, including a woman acting with a legal guardian. It belongs to a renunciation of claims to property.

In English machine translation

[verso] […] … son (?) of […] also called Heron, aged about 70, with a scar on the forehead […] […] … of Heron, aged about …, with a scar on the … […] […] … daughter (?) of […]trothmous (?), aged about 42, with a scar on the left knee […] […] with her guardian, her … […] […] aged about 78, with a scar … […] [… 3 lines lost …]

Physical descriptions by age and scars were a standard way of identifying contracting parties in Roman Egypt. The identification as a renunciation of claims comes from the catalogue record; this side preserves only the descriptions.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Renunciation of Claims to Property). 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.mert.3.121v

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

[v] […]………τα τοῦ καὶ Ἥρωνος ὡς ἐτῶν ο οὐλὴ μετώπῳ […] […]ωροση…σ…ο… Ἥρωνος ὡς ἐτῶν … οὐλὴ μετα…[…] […]…[…]…τροθμους ὡς ἐτῶν μβ οὐλὴ γόνατι ἀριστερῷ[…] […] μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ πα…φ[…] […] ὡς ἐτῶν οη οὐλὴ …[…] [… 3 lines lost …]