One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22606
Contract for wet-nursing a foundling slave infant TM 22606Oasis Magna ?, Ägypten; Schreibort: Kysis (Oasis Magna, Ägypten)4. Nov. 308 (Jahr und Monat unsicher)
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A fragmentary contract in which Aurelia Thermouthis, acting with her husband as guardian, agrees to nurse with her own milk a foundling infant taken up from a dung-heap into slavery, for a period apparently of nine months and a fee in talents. It was written at Kysis in the Great Oasis in the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
Aurelia Thermouthis […]
with her husband as guardian, Aurelius […]
to Aurelius […], foreigner (?), greetings. […]
[…] from now […] which has been taken up
from the dung-heap into slavery, an infant named […]
[…] to me […]
[…] of the price agreed between us […]
[…] 2 talents […]
[…] Thermouthis […]
[…] 9 months […]
[…] of the time […]
[…] half of you (?) […]
[…] of the fixed […]
[…] silver […]
[…] that you have the right to manage […]
[…] of the aforementioned infant […]
This agreement, with the signature of the undersigned, shall be valid and secure
and lawful as if deposited in a public archive, and having been asked I gave my assent.
In the consulship of our lords Diocletian, father of the Augusti, for the 10th time
and Galerius Valerius Maximianus Augustus for the 7th time […]
I, Aurelia Thermouthis, the aforementioned, with my husband Aurelius […]
[…] to the aforementioned Apol[…] […] the period. If within […]
[…]
[…] that I nurse with my own milk […]
[…] and I consent to all the provisions as set out above, and having been asked
I gave my assent. I, Aurelius […], wrote on her behalf because she does not know letters.
[…]
In the aforementioned consulship, Mecheir 1 according to the Egyptians […]
The phrase 'from the dung-heap' (apo koprias) is a restoration based on standard wet-nursing contracts for exposed infants. The date in the text (Mecheir 1) does not match the catalogue's November date, which is marked uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract for Wet-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.
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Αὐρηλία Θερμοῦθις […]…ι…ι…[…] μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ ἀνδρὸς Αὐρηλίου […] Αὐρηλίῳ […] ἀλλοϕύλῳ χαίρειν. […] … ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν […] ὃ ἀνείρηται ἀπὸ κοπρίας εἰς δουλείαν βρέϕος ὀνόματι […] […]ν πρὸς ἐμὲ …[…] […] τιμῆς τῆς συμπεϕωνημένης πρὸς ἀλλήλους […] […] τάλαντα δύο α[…] […] τὴν Θερμοῦθιν […