One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 24938

Register entries on a dowry and a cession of house plots to a wife TM 24938unbekanntI

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Fragmentary register-style entries from the 1st century AD concerning a woman, Ninnous also called Serapias, daughter of Heron. One entry records her being given in marriage by Bakchylos to Didymos with a dowry; another records her husband ceding a share of house plots to her against debts he owed her from paternal unsecured loans he had paid off.

In English machine translation

[1] […] of his wife Thaisous, also called Didymarion, sister; to Ninnous also called Serapias, being a virgin, given in marriage by him, Bakchylos, and coming together with him, Didymos, for marriage, a dowry. Beginning of the roll (?), sheet 39 sheet 22 sheet 23 [2] […] Thoth 30 […] voluntarily, the 9th part, 1/2 part of the house plots, to his wife Ninnous also called Serapias, daughter of Heron, citizen, toward what he owes her from what he paid off for her in his house, of paternal unsecured loans. 39

The abbreviations for 'sheet' (kollema) with numbers appear to be cross-references to documents in a roll, suggesting this is an abstract or register of contracts. 'Citizen' (aste) indicates she held citizen status of a Greek city.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dokument, einen Brautschatz und eine Schuldentilgung betreffend). 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.amst.1.40

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

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