End of a deed of mutual surety by Mousaios and his wife Lau TM 33269Hermonthis (Ägypten)VI

End of a deed of mutual surety in which Aurelius Mousaios son of Hermaau, a modeller, and his wife Lau daughter of Ammonios guarantee one another, apparently against the risk of one of them disappearing. It carries the subscription of a scribe writing for the illiterate parties, two witnesses (a soldier and a subdeacon) and the notary's signature. Written at Hermonthis in the 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

The museum record misreads the wife's name as 'Lausumbios'; the text has 'Lau, his wife' (symbios). The Greek allelengyon is a deed of mutual surety, and plastes may denote a modeller or a brick- or plaster-worker.

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