Official document
The text on the verso appears to be an official document, perhaps concerning an inheritance. The recto is a hypothesis to Euripides of The Wise Melanippe.
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Fragment of an official document, perhaps concerning an inheritance TM 25432unknownFirst century CE
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Fragment of an official document, possibly about an inheritance, naming several persons including Phatreus, Hermaiskos, Leon and Dionysios and mentioning someone's deceased mother. It is written on the back of a papyrus carrying a hypothesis (plot summary) of Euripides' Wise Melanippe, and dates to the late 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
[…] of Phatreus son of […]
[…] of Herakl[…]
[…] son of Hermaiskos […]
[…] of the sons […]
[…] your […] from your deceased mother […]
[…] and Leon […]
[…]
[…] Dionysios son of Phileas (?) […]
[… lines lost …]
The connection with an inheritance rests only on the mention of a deceased mother and of sons. The recto of the papyrus bears a hypothesis to Euripides' Wise Melanippe.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official Document). 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.leid.inst.1.89
[…]… Φατρέως τοῦ […] […]των τοῦ Ἡρακλ […] […]…ς Ἑρμαίσκου[…] […]… διε τῶν υἱῶν […] […]σου ἀπὸ τῆς τετελευτηκυίας σου μητρός[…] […]…α…ος καὶ Λέων μ[…] […]…ζ…ο καὶ τη…οδυιο[…] […]Διονύσιος Φιλέου[…] [… ? lines lost …]