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Fragment of a register of contracts and other private documents TM 22343Oxyrhynchos193 - 198
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Fragment of a register of copied or abstracted private documents from Oxyrhynchus under Septimius Severus, AD 193-198. The entries include matters of guardianship and inheritance, a loan with interest, a wet-nursing payment for a weaned nursling, and a sale of property with boundaries involving a priest of Thoeris, Isis and Sarapis.
In English machine translation
Year […] of Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus, Pachon 1. From Theon […] of the city, to Dionysios son of Julius son of Dionysios, from the same city […]
[…] son of Menylos, from the same city. My mother […]
[…] are of Theon also called Heraklammon, being occupied […]
[…] and my half share of the other things left behind […]
[…]teles also called Sarapion, memoranda […]
[…] of the matters concerning my guardianship, nor concerning anything […]
[…] of Maisous, the copy. Lucretius Neilos […]
Year […] of Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus, Pharmouthi 30. Lucretius […]
[…] their father and my husband Sarapion, by will (?) […]
[…] son of Ptolemaios, mother Tnephersois, Cornelius, from the same city […]
[…] I wrote on her behalf, since she does not know letters. Dionysios son of Dionysios […]
[…] of the city, mother Didyme, citizen, greetings. I acknowledge […]
[…] from the present month Pachon, and I will repay you […]
[…] interest, you having the right of execution upon me and upon all my property […]
[…] Sarapammon, aged about 32, scar on the left calf.
[…] brother of Thermouthion, to Herakleios also called Sarapia[…]
[…] hundred drachmas in full, for nursing wages and oil and […]
[…] her, of the nursling […] her […]
[…] weaned and having received every care. […]
[…] of the city of the Oxyrhynchi, priest of Thoeris and Isis and Sarapis and the gods who share their temple […]
[…] from the same city, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received […]
[…] two talents, agreed upon between each other […]
[…] whose neighbours on the south and west are Se[…] and A[…]
[…] south, royal land; north and east […]nios Ar[…]
[…] of Dionysios son of Sarapion and Ar[…]on, a plot and […]
[…] former gymnasiarch; north, Sarapion son of Heron; east […]
[…] of the property, registration (?) […] which […]
[…] guard (?) […]
[…] Thonis, aged about 18, scar on the forehead, and on behalf of […]
[…] mother Beith[…], from the city of the Oxyrhynchi […]
[…] nine hundred and sixty drachmas and […]
[…] I will pay you the […] capital sum […]
[…] my […] you may receive […]
[…] and […] from the city of the Oxyrhynchi […]
[… lines lost …]
The dates fall in Pharmouthi and Pachon of one regnal year of Septimius Severus. The entries appear to be copies or abstracts of documents, such as might be kept in a record office register.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bruchstück eines Registers). 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.lips.1.31
ἔτους[…]Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σεουήρου Εὐσεβοῦς Περτίνακος Σεβαστοῦ Ἀραβικοῦ Ἀδιαβηνικοῦ Παχὼν α. παρὰ Θέωνος […] πόλεως Διονυσίῳ Ἰουλίου τοῦ Διονυσίου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως[…] […]νος τοῦ Μενύλου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. μητρός μου μ[…] […]ων εἰσιν Θέωνος τοῦ καὶ Ἡρ…