One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25132

Petition of a woman against her husband for maintenance and return of property TM 25132unbekanntI

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Fragment of a petition by a woman against her husband, who had married her with a dowry of 1,000 silver drachmas and with whom she had children, including Horos, Euboulos and Didymos. She complains that he stopped providing maintenance, shut her out of the house and kept her belongings, and asks that he return her maintenance, clothing and property and be compelled to support the children. It dates to the 1st century AD.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] to me [...] as I shall show [...] through the documents of the dowry [...] of 1,000 silver drachmas [...] but she (?), having then been wronged, dissolved the long-standing marriage, there having been born to us in common the children [...] Horos and Euboulos and Didymos [...] having become estranged (?), he provided us with nothing of maintenance, so that I fell short of necessities; he shut [me] out (?) [...] entry into the house [...] keeping back [...] a little wrap (?) [...] wherefore, having left him and [...] making [...] and the [...] as I choose and [...] six months [...] [...] [...] and to communicate the copy to the prefect, so that he may know that the agreement (cheirographon) remains valid [...] and if he has not returned to me the maintenance and the clothing and the other things of mine that he holds, as stated above; and that he be compelled to supply to the children both the maintenance and the clothing in the manner that is due, years [...]

The beginning and end are lost and several lines are badly damaged. The phrase about who dissolved the marriage is partly restored and its subject is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petizione di una donna contro il marito). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · I

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