Show I EGYPTIAN LIFE LIE LIEI I Some Interesting t Details From the I Papyri Pall al Stall Mall Gazette Gaete The To second part par of Me and an Hunts Oxy Papyri Egypt Exploration Fund gives us a further r glimpse gli into ino the te lIfe led by col colonists c onist in m Egypt E during the early er Chris Chrisian Ohr Chrisian ian centuries Although it does not ontur i do nt eon con contain tain lain so s many man amusing private letters as Its It predecessor sr some sorn of the th legal doe doc documents d umen it reproduces are interesting i Witness what would nowadays be called cald a ball bl bond bon given glyen by one Theon Then I to the Governor of ot the th prison son of or Zeus Zus I 1 swear ar by Tiberius Caesar Caer I Novus Augustus Imperator Im that I have haye I thirty days in h to restore to you the man mart whom hom I balled bled out of jf f the pub public I lie lic lc prison in June of ot the present prent year son sn of Sar pion arrested through GIBus assistant to the dk die di cotta ote magistrate for foT crown lands lando lan on I account of a 1 note nate n te of or hand for a gold geM gl bracelet bra t weighing two mmae minae mina to Slag Mag ag Ianus lanus on behalf bh 1 of Aline Anne citizen cize daughter of Dionysius If I I do not pro pr I duce him Within said mid number of If days I Iwi will wi pay pay the said tao tro minae of or gold god without t delay dela and I have lae no power to obtain a further period pro of time tm nor nr to 1 transfer tm fer myself m lf to another anther prison One On would woUd like to know more mor of the te bachelor the Sara extravagant extra at oung young Sar pion pion Who bought on credit crit a gold bracelet l t worth of ot our ur money m ney for a I lady of the he city cit and what ahat induced Induce Theon to go bail bal for him him Was it i I merely maly good nature nature or was a he like one of the te professional pr prof bails whose readi readiness ness n s to perjure themselves es before the judges judg s of or the land for half lan ta a a crown Cr a crime so shocked Mr r Pickwick The Te Teca class ca were W re certainly not unknown in Egypt at the time tm Another papyrus in the th same volume however leads leas one to think that The Te Teon ons on interest was ivas of the would be pa tercel terl kind kin Syra S ra daughter of Theon Then p complains to the chief Justice Jusic I mar married rind ried rie brinIng bringing brn l g him by cession ce Ion I Ia a Q amounting to two hundred drachmae of o silver As he was desti del tute of or means I received him hint into my m parents parets house hous hou and an I for my m part pa con ducted myself If bl in all amil al re no respects r spec But Sr plon having haYing aquas tiered dered der my m dowry as he pleased pJ contin continually continually ill i treated and insulted me us an ing violence toward me and depriving me of the th necessaries orila finally he deserted de me m leaving laying me in a state tae of destitution de ee I therefore beg you to tp order orde him Mm to be brought brugh before b you u in order od that tt fee te se may my be compelled cle perforce pere peret to t pay py back bk my dowry Increased ne by half haf Its t amount amunt Evidently EVId y Syra Sy die dl covered cei too t late that if th the proverb about ab a reformed rod rake re making the best b husband huba be b true tre It 1 is a as well wel to t see ee that tha the t rake re is reformed rei before baO you yu commit your yur fortune fortun to 1 him him The marriage mae yoke however sat eat 6 very try ver H y upon these th gay colonists The marriage contract cort between one OD DIOnY Diy clue and an a lady ky of or wealth weah who brings brin to her husband besides b capes expectations tattoos in the shape of house hou property furniture and a slaves upon her bet he moth mothers mt ers ens es death four mines minae of gold three te dresses and some se twenty acres a of land expressly provides that i if the young youg la couple cople disagree and an shall wish to leave ghe shall haai wi Se te Sl re receive r receive back bak her hr dowry do doa lees 1 I a provision for fo any child oil of the marriage mage who wh shell shall she prefer to remain reman with the th father An Another Another other papyrus shows such sch an a arrange arrangement age ment mont at work the laity lady in this work case esse ce re receiving receiving back bak her he dowry after afe she he had bad ba been ben married a year yer and an each e partner panr agreeing ageing that na an ft claim cam should be mode made upon the She other oher A still more inane mor Informal m arrangement is shadowed arnen f shaw in the deed ded between and Sau which schick 11 was WR stated state not to be a a res reg re ular marriage contract In this case the th lady lad contributes forty fry silver siver drachmae a pair of or gold pr gol earrings anti and anda antia a milk white robe to fund a under un r the th terra form for of Qt a a loan lon to her quasi fun husband who aho qu husband 1 undertakes to repay the dowry dT or its Iti iU equivalent In five rpy months month and to o provide on separation for what Mr lr Kipling would call ol the Ithe almost amot in Inevitable evitable consequences We Ve know from kw fm another ath r document that tat the alliance worked woke well weI and an that although alae Try TI phon took seven years yea to t repay the dowry the he two were living J py together tw twentythree ttY three hr years ear after ater a son sn and anu daughter having been born a brn to t them therm Tryphon though only ony years old had been ben married me before to a a lady named Demetrus from fr fro whom 1 he was divorced The wa divor Te separation does nut not seem to have o n prevented Demetrus emes from his hs prevent new nw establishment mels and an thumping her successor of which there the is a formal complaint to lih i for the meg mag istrate She te mg must have Sie mut been a lady of ot lay violent temper tempe and it was wa most moat m likely by avoiding her methods wa that succeeded in retaining the c somewhat fugitive affection of Tryphon A l pro pre A for earache pr fr earh containing poppy juice shows the te medical meet i t opium to be older than ta has a been b n bul |