Receipt for a nurse's wages.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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