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End of a duplicate copy of a private agreement from Oxyrhynchus in which a party acknowledges receipt of wages for nursing a child and releases the other party from further claims. It was written in four copies and could be registered publicly through the record office; it is dated in year 5 of Valerian and Gallienus, in the month Mecheir.
The opening, with the names of the parties, is lost; only the closing clauses and dating survive. The registration "through the katalogeion" (record office) refers to the procedure of making a private document public and enforceable.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Wages of Nursing). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[2dupl] [… ? lines lost …] προφάσει τῶν τροφείων μηδενὸς οὑτινοσοῦν ἁπλῶς μέχρι τῆς ἐνεστώσης ἡμέρας. κύρια τὰ τῆς ἀποχῆς τῶν τροφείων καὶ ἀνεγκλησίας γράμματα τετρασσὰ γραφέντα προς τὸ ἑκάτερον μέρος ἔχειν δισσόν, ἅπερ ὁπηνίκα ἐὰν αἱρῶνται ἢ καί τις αὐτῶν δημοσιώσῃ διὰ τοῦ καταλ…
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