One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9040
Wet-nurse's receipt for nursing wages for a slave girl TM 9040Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)20. Juli 50
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A receipt drawn up through the record office of Soknopaiou Nesos in which the wet-nurse Tasoukis, with her husband as guardian, acknowledges receiving from Tesenouphis full payment of wages, oil, clothing and other allowances for nursing his house-born slave girl Thermoutharion for two years of breastfeeding and six months of further care. She undertakes to make no further claims. It dates to 20 July AD 50.
In English machine translation
Year 10 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Epeiph 26, through Hermias son of Neilos, in charge of the record office of Neilopolis and Soknopaiou Nesos and Herakleia, of the Herakleides and Themistos divisions of the Arsinoite nome.
Tasoukis daughter of Opis, wet-nurse, aged 30, with a scar on the left shin, with her guardian, her own husband Apynchis son of Panephremmis, aged 35, with a scar on the right forearm, acknowledges to Tesenouphis son of Horos, aged 50, with a scar on the right shin, that she has received from him the nursing wages and the oil and the clothing and the other things which it is proper to give to a nurse for the two-year period of milk-nursing and six months of care, for the female slave child born in his house, Thermoutharion, whom she has nursed and suckled […]
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[…] of the nursing wages […] will not proceed against him, neither concerning […] nor concerning anything else at all in any way, the agreement concerning the nursling remaining valid.
Writer for those making the acknowledgement: Stotoetis son of Ma[…], aged 30, with a scar on the forehead on the left […]
Stotoetis son of Apynchis, aged […]
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The name of the slave child, Thermoutharion, is largely restored. Such receipts formally closed a wet-nursing contract (trophitis agreement) between nurse and slave owner.
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.
c.pap.gr.1.20
ἔτους δεκάτου Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Ἐπεὶφ ἕκτῃ καὶ εἰκάδι διὰ Ἑρμίου τοῦ Νείλου τοῦ πρὸς τῷ γραφείῳ Νείλου πόλεως καὶ Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου καὶ Ἡρακλείας τῶν Ἡρακλείδου καὶ Θεμίστου μερίδων τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου. ὁμολογεῖ Τασωοῦκις Ὤπιος τροφός, ἐτῶν τρ…