One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31952
Receipt and quitclaim for nursing fees paid for a slave nurse TM 31952Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)III
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
Fragment of a settlement or receipt in which parties declare they have no further claims, especially regarding the fees for nursing a child by their slave woman. Persons named include Sarapion, Thaisarion and an Aurelius Ant[...]. It dates to the 3rd century AD and comes from Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
[...]
[...] neither Sarapion nor either [...]
[...] and Thaisarion, nor to bring a claim [...]
[...] concerning the nursing fees of 8 (?) drachmas [...]
[...] nor concerning any other matter at all, written or unwritten, up to the present day, in any way; and concerning the [...]
[...] they acknowledged. Aurelius Ant[...] [...]
[...] for whom our slave woman acted as nurse [...]
[...] I make no claim concerning any matter at all up to the present day [...] of the city of the Arsinoites [...]
[...] and having been asked the formal question, I acknowledged, as aforesaid [...]
Catalogued as a receipt for a nurse's wages; the surviving text is a mutual quitclaim with a stipulation clause. The sum of 8 drachmas rests on a partial restoration.
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 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.
c.pap.gr.1.39
[… ? lines lost …] […]μηδὲ Σαραπίωνα μηδὲ ἑκάτερον[…] […]τὴν καὶ Θαισάριον μηδὲ ἐνκαλεῖν[…] […]περὶ τῶν τροφείων δραχμῶν ὀκτα[…] […]μηδὲ περὶ ἄλλου μηδενὸς ἁπλῶς πράγματος ἐνγράφου ἢ ἀγράφου μέχρι τῆς ἐνεστώσης ἡμέρας τρόπῳ μηδενὶ περὶ δὲ τοῦ […] […]ὡμολόγησαν· Αὐρήλιος Ἀντ[…]…[……