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Marriage contract between the merchant Aquilinus and Euprepia TM 36551Antinoopolis (?)

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Draft of a Byzantine marriage contract between the merchant Aquilinus and Euprepia, setting out his payment of 24 solidi to her, mutual duties of cohabitation and obedience, a penalty of 3 pounds of gold for groundless divorce, and his undertaking to raise her son Victor from a previous marriage. The parties swear by God and the emperor Justinian; probably from Antinoopolis.

In English machine translation

so that the most admirable ⟦Aquilinus⟧, merchant, himself shall bring to her, in place of what was ceded by her to her husband, 24 full-weight solidi, and that ⟦Euprepia⟧ shall follow the purpose of the aforementioned ⟦Aquilinus⟧ and disobey him in nothing, but also follow him wherever he may wish in this province and in Alexandria […] of expenses 24 full-weight gold solidi, and that he shall cherish her in all things and support her and not allow her to be in need of anything. But if, as may happen, he should decide to cast her off without any reasonable cause whatsoever, he shall pay her by way of penalty 3 pounds of gold […] […] And the aforementioned Euprepia also agrees in return to live with the aforementioned most admirable ⟦Aquilinus⟧ blamelessly, and to obey him in all things, and to follow him wherever he may wish in this province and as far as Alexandria and only there, and to do nothing contrary to what is proper […] Furthermore the most admirable ⟦Aquilinus⟧ agrees to keep Victor, the child born of the aforementioned ⟦Euprepia⟧ by her former husband, and moreover also […] received from her […] and to cherish and bring up the children who may be born of him […] who may be born, 1 pound of gold. And that they will keep these terms, the parties on each side swore by God Almighty and the piety and victory of our gloriously victorious master Flavius Justinian, eternal Augustus and emperor, and after the oath again agreeing to the force of this marriage […] […]

The names of the parties are struck through throughout, suggesting the text was a draft or model reused for another contract. The date range is inferred from the oath by Justinian; no exact date survives.

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

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p.cair.masp.3.67340r

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Antinoopolis (?)

ὥστε αὐτὸν μὲν τὸν θαυμασιώτατον πραγματευτὴν προσενεγκεῖν αὐτῇ ἀντὶ τῶν παραχωρηθέντων παρʼ αὐτῆς τῷ αὐτῆς ἀνδρὶ νομίσματα εἴκοσι τέσσαρα εὔσταθμα, δὲ ἐξακολουθῆσαι τῷ σκοπῷ τοῦ προγεγραμμένου , καὶ ἐν μηδενὶ παρακοῦσαι αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀκολουθῆσαι αὐτῷ ὅπου δʼ ἂν βουληθείη ἐν τα…

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p.cair.masp.3.67340v

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Antinoopolis (?)

ἐξ ἴσου ἔχειν ἀνὰ τὸ αὐτὸ τρίτον μέρος πάντα τὰ καταλειφθησόμενα ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ πάντα τὰ πράγματα ἰδιωτικά τε καὶ γονικὰ, ἔτι μὴν καὶ τὰ περιελθόντα εἰς ἐμὲ ἀφʼ οἵου δήποτε δικαίου καὶ νομίμου τίτλου ἐν διαφόροις τόποις καὶ ὅσα μοι ὑπάρχουσιν, μὴ εἰς μνήμην ἐμὴν ἀρτίως ἀχθέντα ἐπιταγῆν…