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Will : Copy via APIS-papyrus

Copy of the will of Messalina, daughter of Kronion, with guardianship authorization. Copy of the will of Messalina, daughter of Kronion, about 60 years old, of the Syrian Quarter in the Arsinoite metropolis, leaving all her property to her sons Kronion and Herakleides, who are also to pay her debts equally. Appended is a copy of a letter of the exegetes Poseidonios to the archive officials authorizing the appointment of her guardian, with her petition and a list of slaves. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[1] [FrA-C] ἀντίγραφον διαθήκης. ἔτους λα Ἀπελλαίου Φαῶφι γ διὰ …[…]…ος διαδεχομένου τὰ γραφεῖα τῆς τε μητροπόλεως καὶ τῶν τριῶν μερίδων τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. τάδε διέθετο νοοῦσα καὶ φρονοῦσα Μεσσαλείνη Κρονίωνος τοῦ Κρονίωνος μητρὸς[…] ἀναγραφομένη ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Συριακῆς ὡς ἐτῶν ἑξήκοντα […] μετὰ κυρίου οὗ ἑκουσίως ἥρηται διὰ Ποσειδωνίου ἱερέως ἐξηγητοῦ […] … […] […] …ου ἀμφο…[…] αν καὶ φιλοστοργίαν προσενεγκαμεν-[…] πάντων τῶν ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ καταλειφθησομένων ὑπαρχόντων μοι οἰκοπέδων καὶ δουλικῶν σωμάτων καὶ ἐπιπλόων σκευῶν καὶ ἐνδομενείας καὶ γενῶν καὶ γενημάτων καὶ ἐνοφειλομένων ἢ καὶ ἐλευσομένων εἴς με καθʼ ὃν δήποτε τρόπον τοῖς προγεγραμμένοις μου ϋἱοῖς Κρονίωνι καὶ Ἡρακλείδῃ βου[…]…θῆναι εἰς τὸν ἐμὸν λόγον ἑκατέρῳ ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ε…[…] γνώμῃ τῶν κληρονόμων μου. ὅσα δὲ ἐὰν φανῶ ὀφείλουσα δημόσια ἢ ἰ̈διωτικὰ χρέα ἀποδώσουσι οἱ αὐτοὶ κληρονόμοι ἐξ ἴσου. ἄλλῳ δὲ οὐδενὶ οὐδὲν καταλείπω. ἔστι δὲ τοῦ χρηματισμοῦ τὸ ἀντίγραφον· Ποσειδώνιος ἱερεὺς ἐξηγητὴς καὶ ἀρχιπρύτανις υἱὸς Χαριτείμου ἀγορανομήσαντος τοῖς τὰ ἀρχεῖα πραγματευομένοις χαίρειν. βιβλιδίων δοθέντων μοι ἐξ ὀνόματος Μεσσαλείνης Κρονίωνος τὸ ἴσον ὑμῖν ἐπιστέλλεται διὰ [2] Ἁρποκρατίωνος ὑπηρέτου τῆς ἀρχῆς ἵνʼ εἰ μηδὲν ἁπλῶς ἐναντιοῦται συνχρηματίσητε αὐτῇ[…] Ἥρωνος ἐπὶ μόνου τούτου …[…] Ποσειδωνίῳ ἱερεῖ ἐξηγητῇ παρὰ Μεσσαλείνης Κρονίωνος[…] [… ? lines lost …] […] [… ? lines lost …] α[…] ο…[…] Μεσσαλείν[…] ἀπογρα- …[…] δουλικὰ σώματα[…] ἐτῶν λδ καὶ Διοσκο[…] καὶ Σαραπίων…[…] ἐτῶν κθ …[…] [FrD] [… ? lines lost …] […]ς[…] […]της τη…[…] […]υ ην…[…] […]…ωτικ[…] […]…[…] […]…νω…[…] […]…επ…[…] [… ? lines lost …] [FrE] [… ? lines lost …] […]αυτην…[…] […] αὐτοῦ …[…] [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[1] [Fragments A-C] Copy of a will. Year 31, Apellaios, Phaophi 3, through […], successor in charge of the record offices of the metropolis and of the three divisions of the Arsinoite nome. The following dispositions were made, being sane and in her right mind, by Messalina, daughter of Kronion son of Kronion, her mother being […], registered in the quarter of the Syrian Quarter, about 60 years old […], with the guardian whom she has freely chosen through Poseidonios, priest and exegetes […] […] […] […] quarter […] […] and affection having shown […] of all the property to be left by me, belonging to me, building plots and slaves and furniture and household goods and crops and produce and debts owed or that will come to me in any manner whatever, to my aforementioned sons Kronion and Herakleides […] to be […] to my account to each of them […] drachmas of silver […] at the discretion of my heirs. Whatever public or private debts I may appear to owe, the same heirs shall pay equally. To no one else do I leave anything. And this is the copy of the authorization: Poseidonios, priest, exegetes and chief prytanis, son of Chariteimos, former agoranomos, to those who administer the archives, greetings. A petition having been given to me in the name of Messalina daughter of Kronion, a copy is sent to you through [2] Harpokration, assistant of the office, so that, if nothing at all stands in the way, you may jointly execute (the document) with her […] of Heron, for this matter only […] To Poseidonios, priest and exegetes, from Messalina daughter of Kronion […] […] […] […] […] Messalina […] registered […] slaves […] aged 34, and Dioskoros (?) […] and Sarapion […] aged 29 […] [Fragment D] […] [Fragment E] […] her […] […] his […] […]

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