Fragment of a marriage contract listing dowry items, including jewellery such as a chain and earrings, uncoined silver by weight, clothing such as a dalmatic, a sword and wooden furniture, brought into the couple's common household. It dates to the mid-5th century AD.
In English machine translation
[...]
[...] a pair of mina-weight (?) [...] [...]
[...] three, a small chain [...]
[...] of ten solidi less carats [...]
[...] two, one quarter [...]
[...] a pale green [...], a [pair] of earrings [...]
[...] of uncoined [silver], weighing one pound [...]
[...] to go into the common [household] [...]
[...] living together with one another [...]
[...] another Latin [...]
[...] a dalmatic, a sword-knife [...]
[...]; and wooden items; a chest (?) [...]
[...]
[...]
A dalmatic was a long-sleeved tunic fashionable in Late Antiquity. 'Mina-weight' (mnaiaion) is an uncertain rendering of a term describing the pair of items in the first line.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dowry List from a Marriage Contract). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.