Receipt for nursing fees for a share in a slave, between gravediggers TM 22631Mothis (Oasis Magna, Ägypten)6. Jan. 308

Tapaous daughter of Piaous, gravedigger of the city of the Mothites, to Kasianos son of Kasianos, gravedigger of the toparchy of Kysis, greetings. I acknowledge that I have nursed for you the fourth part of the slave (?). I have received from you the nursing fees and the clothing allowance, 20 talents of silver of the coinage of the Augusti in nummi, which you paid me in full on the day before the Kalends of October, at the beginning (?). Again on the 1[…]th day before the Kalends of October, in accordance with the guarantee […] you will provide the nursing fees and the clothing allowance of the fourth part of the slave (?) […]. This handwritten security is valid, and with the subscription of the one subscribing let it be valid and secure as lawful, as if deposited in a public archive, and having been asked I have agreed. In the consulship of our lords Diocletian, father of the Augusti, for the 10th time, and Galerius Valerius Maximianus Augustus for the [7th] time, on the 8th day before the Ides of January. I, Tapaous daughter of Piaous, gravedigger, the aforesaid, to Kasianos son of Kasianos, gravedigger, the aforesaid: I have received from you the nursing fees and the clothing allowance of the fourth part of the slave (?), 20 talents of silver of the Augusti in nummi, as stated above, and having been asked I have agreed. I, Aurelius Philosarapis of the city of the Mothites, wrote on her behalf since she does not know letters.