A legal document from the Arsinoite nome in the later 3rd century AD in which members of a family, including their mother Aurelia Kyrillous acting under the right of children, consent to and confirm the manumission of the slave Noumenios by his patron Maron. They renounce all claims against Noumenios and acknowledge his release from patronal authority and his peculium, with signed subscriptions by the parties.
In English machine translation
[…] Aure[lius …] of the same […]
[…] to […]
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[…] according to a written security made in the same seventh year, in the month Pharmouthi, 20(?) […]
[…] the Noumenios being in subjection, and having learned the things belonging to him of the […]
[…] and the customary twentieth (tax) […] of the most sacred treasury […] thence
[…] of the aforementioned patron of his, Maron, nominated to the dekaprotia, son of Kyrillos(?)
[…] to the manumission of Noumenios carried out by the aforementioned patron
[…] neither they themselves nor those acting for them against Noumenios nor against those acting for him, neither concerning this nor concerning any other
[…] debt or claim from former times up to the present day, in any manner […] that they have ceded him to Maron with full ownership, and that he has been manumitted by him, and
[released from all] patronal authority and from all his peculium, in accordance with the manumission. Present also is their mother
[Aurelia Kyrillous, daughter of Dioskoros], former councillor of the same city of the Arsinoites, acting without a guardian according to the customs of the Romans by the right of children,
[who consents to and confirms the] manumission. Being asked whether these things have been done thus rightly and properly, they agreed. Aurelius
[…]: I consent to and confirm the manumission of Noumenios carried out by Maron
[and I will not proceed against it in any] way, as aforesaid, and having been asked I agreed. Aurelius Satornilos
[…]: I consent to and confirm the manumission of Noumenios carried out by Maron and I will not proceed
[in any way, as aforesaid, and] having been asked I agreed. Aurelia Kyrillous, daughter of Dioskoros, former councillor,
[acting without a guardian according to the customs of the Romans by the right of] children: I consent to and confirm the manumission of Noumenios [by Maron and I will not proceed in any way] as aforesaid and […].
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The 'twentieth' is the Roman manumission tax (vicesima libertatis) paid to the treasury. The peculium was the property a slave was allowed to hold and manage.
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.