Closing portion of a legal document from Ankyron in the Herakleopolite nome, AD 2nd-3rd century, preserving subscriptions. A woman named Taesis, acting with her husband Apion as guardian, subscribes, and a scribe writes on behalf of an illiterate wife.
In English machine translation
[...]
[...] ... [...]
[...] in accordance with the [...] of the
[...] prefecture (?)
having invoked [...] -ios, I wrote on behalf of his wife, who does not know letters.
[...] her aforementioned husband
[...] having added his signature
[...] Taesis the aforementioned
[with her guardian] my husband Apion
[...] my [...] the aforesaid
[...] of the aforesaid, on account of which
[...] mine and my husband's
[...] as stated above. Apion
[...] to my wife [...]
[...] her [...] from
The type of document is uncertain; only the closing subscriptions survive, so the genre is a guess. The reference to the prefecture (hegemonia) is largely restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Schlußstück einer Urkunde). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.