Agreement Concerning an Inheritance
Agreement concerning part of an inheritance of a certain Zoilos, which he bequeathed to his two granddaughters, but left under the control of their maternal uncle, his son, until they married
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Agreement of two sisters with their uncle concerning their grandfather's inheritance TM 22196Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt(After) 190 A.D.
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Opening of an agreement from Oxyrhynchus in which two sisters, Kalpurnia and Apia also called Theodora, with their husbands as guardians, address their maternal uncle Dioskourides, a prominent local dignitary. They recall that their grandfather Zoilos's will let Dioskourides collect the revenues of the property left to them until they married, and afterwards hand it over; the terms of the agreement itself are lost.
In English machine translation
Kalpurnia and Apia also called Theodora, both daughters of Gai[…] […] their mother being Theodora, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, each with her husband as guardian, Kalpurnia with Apion son of Apollonios son of Sarapion, his mother being Saraeus, by adoption son of Diogenes son of Sarapion, from the same city, and Apia also called Theodora with Chosion son of […]on also called Chosion, his mother being Thaisous, from the same city, to our maternal uncle Dioskourides son of Zoilos son of Dioskourides, of the Hadrianeian and Olympeian (tribe?), one of the victors in the sacred games and exempt from taxes, former gymnasiarch and former high priest of the lords Augusti and of all the gods of the same city of the Oxyrhynchites, temple-warden of the great Sarapis in the Greek Serapeum in the same city, greetings.
Since by the will which your father and our maternal grandfather, Zoilos son of Dioskourides son of Hermes, his mother being Theodora, from the same city of Oxyrhynchus, drew up through the record office of the same city in year 27, Tybi, under seals, which he left unaltered when he died and which has also been opened, after other dispositions he wished that you should collect the revenues of the property shown to belong to us by this will until we were married to husbands, and after our marriage for other years […] to give to us, to whatever husbands we might marry, and in return for […]
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The text breaks off before the actual terms of the agreement. "Hadrianeios also called Olympeios" is probably a local tribal or deme designation of Dioskourides.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Agreement Concerning an Inheritance). 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.mich.18.789
[1] Καλπουρνία καὶ Ἀπία ἡ καὶ Θεοδώρα ἀμφότεραι θυγατέρες Γαι[…]…ερη… […]μητρὸς Θεοδώρας ἀπὸ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως ἐκατέρα μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἀνδρός, ἡ μὲν Καλπουρνία Ἀπίωνος Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Σαραπίωνος μητρὸς Σαραεῦτος θέσει Διογένους Σαραπίωνος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως, ἡ δὲ Ἀπία ἡ καὶ Θεοδώ…