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Receipt for a wet-nurse's wages for a slave child TM 28423Tebtynis (Arsinoites)2nd century A.D.

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A receipt in which Thenkebkis, acting with her husband Marsisouchos as guardian, acknowledges receiving from Isidoros 500 silver drachmas, the balance owed for three years of wet-nursing by her slave Sarapias of Isidoros' house-born slave child Eudaimon. She renounces any further claims. It comes from Tebtynis in the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] has received from him, Isidoros, […] 500 drachmas of silver, the [remaining] nursing fees, and for oil and all other expenses for the three years during which Sarapias, the slave of Thenkebkis, suckled and nursed the male slave-child born to Isidoros from a slave woman belonging to him, Eudaimon, also called My[…], whom he also received back on the spot […] the rest […] and that Thenkebkis had previously received […] of the suckling and nursing […] part, by hand without a written record; and that neither Thenkebkis herself nor those [acting for her] will proceed against him concerning what she has received and previously received as stated above, the wages for the slave-child Eudaimon also called My[…], nor concerning any other matter at all up to the present day in any way, the fee fixed for the notification having been paid. […] Thenkebkis daughter of Kronion also called Sarapammon, with her guardian, her husband Marsisouchos son of Maron: I have received from Isidoros the remaining drachmas of the nursing fees for Isidoros' slave-child Eudaimon also called My…, whom my slave Sarapias suckled, […] and I make no claim concerning these matters nor concerning earlier ones, as stated above. I, Marsisouchos, wrote also on behalf of my wife, since she is illiterate.

The child's second name (beginning My-) is lost. The Greek term for the child (engonos) denotes a house-born slave, not a grandchild.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for a Nurse’s Wages). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

Receipt for a nurse's wages.

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Tebt.0399 · 2nd century A.D. · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

Thenkebkis acknowledges receipt from Isidoros of 500 drachmae of silver for wages and expenses of a female slave, Sarapias, nurse to the child of a certain Isidoros.

c.pap.gr.1.37

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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