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Receipt for household goods of a deceased father, with renunciation of claims TM 23657Oxyrhynchos

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A signed acknowledgement from Oxyrhynchus in which Didymos confirms to his late father's widow Tausorapis that he has received the furniture, utensils and household goods his father left, and renounces any further claims against her. It is dated to Thoth 25 of Hadrian's 15th year (AD 130).

In English machine translation

Didymos son of Didymos son of Didymos, his mother being Sarapous, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, to Tausorapis daughter of Apis, her mother being Tateichis, from the same city, the former wife of my deceased father Didymos, with as guardian her kinsman Horos, styled as having mother Tanesneus, from the same city, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received the furniture, utensils, household contents and all other things left by the aforesaid deceased Didymos, my father and your husband, and that I neither make nor will make any claim against you nor proceed against you, either about these things or about any other matter whatsoever, written or unwritten, at all, from past times up to the present day, on any pretext. This note of hand is valid. Year 15 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Thoth 25. I, Didymos son of Didymos, have received the things left. […]

Horos is described with a mother's name only ("styled as having mother"), which usually indicates a person of unknown or illegitimate paternity. Tausorapis is called the father's wife, not Didymos' mother, so she was probably his stepmother.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Acknowledgement of Receipt of Request). 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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p.oxy.64.4433

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Oxyrhynchos

Δίδυμος Διδύμου τοῦ Διδύμου μητρὸς Σαραποῦτος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως τῇ γενομένῃ τοῦ μετηλλαχότος μου πατρὸς Διδύμου γυναικὶ Ταϋσοράπει Ἄπειτος μητρὸς Τατείχιος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ συγγενοῦς Ὥρου χρηματίζοντος μητρὸς Τανεσνέως ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ …