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Deed of Surety

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Deed of Surety

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Published as number 25 in P.WashU.I;
1 papyrus fragment 23.5 x 16;
15 lines of text;
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/throop.html;
Scope note: In this document a mother (Aurelia Nonna) is offering herself as surety against her son's lease of land.;
Imaging and cataloging sponsored through APIS III, an NEH funded project.

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PW 25 – Inv 220
After the consulship of the most excellent Flavius Decius, Phamenoth 29,
Indiction 8, Year 206 = 175.
To Flavius Phoibammon, also called Lamonson, most magnificent and noble
comes, son of Ammonianus of blessed memory, landholder here in the glorious city of
Oxyrhynchus, greetings from Aurelia Nonna, daughter of Phoibammon also called . . .
and . . . her mother . . . from the village Kalae, the property of your magnificence or your
portion of it in the Oxyrhynchite Nome. I agree of my own free will to be surety and
pledge to your magnificence for my son that he . . . together with his wife . . . and all . . .
will remain and live on the same property being responsible for all things that have to do
with his own person or the fortune of the person registered and that he will by no means
leave the property nor move to another place and if he is required of me by your
magnificence . . .

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“Deed of Surety,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed April 23, 2024, http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/8069.

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