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Catalog Record: michigan.apis.5130 [xml]

Title Wet-nurse Contract
Author M..ter-Senosiris and Metis-Tapsais
Summary Contract in which M..ter-Senosiris and Metis-Tapsais agree to nurse a slave-child found in a garbage dump.
Citations Warga RG, P.Sel.Warga (diss.), 8, 1988 -- SB XXII, 15614
Inv. Id P.Mich. inv. 133
Support/Dimensions 2 papyri ; 11.9 x 11.1 cm.
Condition This light brown papyrus has sustained extensive damage from large worm-holes, and therefore decipherment of the text is extremely difficult.
Lines 17 lines
Recto/Verso Source of description: Recto
Hands The left margin is preserved for 11 lines, while the right runs for 16 lines.
Origin Unknown
More from Unknown
Language Greek
Date July 25, 154 A. D.
More from the period between 125 CE and 126 CE
Note (general) Location: Ann Arbor
Note (general) Pub. status: Recto; Verso is blank
Note (related) + P. Mich. inv. 151
Subjects -; Documentary; contract; Papyrus
Associated Names M..ter Senosiris; Psennesis; Thaesis; Pisechthis; Ps..; Tbekis; Thaesis
Images Recto thumbnail
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License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

"Year 17 of Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius, Mesore 1. M..ter-Senosiris, a Persian, the daughter of Psennesis, her mother being Thaesis, aged 4x, with a scar on the left shoulder, with her guardian being her husband Pisechthis, the son of Psennesis, aged 45, agrees with Metis-Tapsais, the daughter of Psennesis, granddaughter of Ps..., her mother being Tbekis, to nurse the infant slave girl from the garbage dump, whose name is Thaesis, who was entrusted to her by her (Tapsais), for two years, receiving from her each month . . . twelve drachmae. . ."