Fragment of a legal document from the Arsinoite nome, AD 2nd century, involving a woman acting with her paternal half-brother or brother as guardian. It mentions ornaments, small rings and wooden items, possibly a dowry or property list, and land in the Herakleides division near a village.
In English machine translation
[…] of Imperator […]
[…] of the Arsinoite nome […]
[…] about […] years old […]
[…] with her guardian, her full brother on the father's side […]
[…] in ornaments, which are […]
[…] little rings […]
[…] together […]
[…] two wooden […]
[…] on the […]
[…] of the division of Herakleides […]
[…] near the village of Ty[…]
[… ? lines lost …]
The listing of jewellery and household items suggests a marriage contract or dowry document, but the exact type cannot be confirmed from the surviving text.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.