A fragment of a contract or legal document from the Herakleopolite nome, dated by the joint reign of Septimius Severus and his sons (AD 197-211) and by eponymous priests. It mentions a woman whose mother was Tastoous, a place near Tekmei, a sum or quantity of thirty, and a person's age.
In English machine translation
Signed (?)
[…] of the lords […]
[…] […]
[…] her mother Tastoous […]
[…] the one from the […]
[…]
[…] Caesars Lucius Septimius […]
[…] Augusti, in the term of the priests […]
[…] near Tekmei […]
[…] thirty […]
[…] about … years old […]
[…] from the village […]
[… lines lost …]
The dating by eponymous priests and the age description of a party point to an Alexandrian-style contract. The opening abbreviation σεσ(ημείωμαι), 'I have signed', is usually an official's notation of registration.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.