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p.oxy.42.3015 Oxyrhynchos

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Extracts from court proceedings on Egyptian testamentary law. Extracts from court records from Oxyrhynchus, citing decisions of the prefect Sulpicius Similis under Trajan on Egyptian inheritance law. After consulting legal experts, the prefect ruled that an Egyptian could freely dispose of his estate by will and that a lapsed marriage-related agreement left the earlier arrangement in force. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

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[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…]…[…]…………[…] […]…μονο…κ[…]…[…]υσι κάλλιστόν ἐστιν αὐτοὺς δικαιοδοτεῖν πρὸς τοὺς Αἰγυπτίων νόμους ἐφʼ οἷς ἔξεστι καὶ μεταδιατίθεσθαι. καλῶς διέθετο ὁ τελευτήσας. ἔτους ιβ θεοῦ Τραιανοῦ Παχὼν ιγ. Ἄρειος καὶ Σαραπίων ἀμφότεροι Πτολεμαίου πρὸς Ἀθηνόδωρον καὶ Ἀπολλώνιον· ἐκ τῶν ῥηθέντων· Σουλπίκιος Σίμιλις πυθόμενος Ἀρτεμιδώρου τοῦ ἐξηγουμένου τοὺς νόμους περὶ τοῦ πράγματος καὶ συνλαλήσας τοῖς συμβούλοις ἔφη· Αἰγύπτιος εἶχεν ἐξουσίαν καθὼς βούλεται διαθέσθαι. ἔτους[…] θεοῦ Τραιανοῦ Τῦβι κ ἐπὶ τῶν κατὰ Τρύφωνα πρὸς Διδ[…] μεθʼ ἕτερα· Σουλπίκιος Σίμιλις συνλαλήσας τοῖς συνβούλοις καὶ ἀνακοινωσαμένος Ἀρτεμιδώρῳ νομικῷ ἔφη· λέγεται …[…]…ονε…[…] […]… οὔτε ἡ γυνὴ ἐφʼ ἧς καινότερόν τι συνεφώνησεν ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ γαμοῦντος οὔτε οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτῆς περίεισι οἷς ἐδύνατο κατέχεσθαι τὰ κατὰ τὴν συμφωνίαν, ἄκυρόν ἐστιν ἤδη τοῦτο τὸ γράμμα. ὁ δὲ νόμος ὡς λέγεται δίδωσιν ἐξουσίαν τῶι τὸ πανπράσιον οἰκονομήσαντι καὶ κατασχόντα τοῖς τέκνοις τὰ ἴδια ἐκλέξασθαι ἐξ αὐτῶν ἕνα καὶ κληρονόμων ποιῆσαι. οὐκουν παραπεσούσης τῆς δευτέρας ἀσφαλείας εἰς τὴν προτέραν ἀνέκαμψεν τὸ δίκαιον. ἐξῆν αὐτῶ ὡς ἐβούλετο διαθέσθαι κληρονόμους καταλιπόντι τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῦ ἐφʼ οἷς ἐποιήσατο τὸ πανπράσιον.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[… lines lost …] […] […] […] […] […] […] it is best that they give judgment according to the laws of the Egyptians, under which it is permitted also to change one's testamentary dispositions. The deceased made his dispositions properly. Year 12 of the deified Trajan, Pachon 13. Areios and Sarapion, both sons of Ptolemaios, against Athenodoros and Apollonios. From the proceedings: Sulpicius Similis, having inquired of Artemidoros, the expounder of the laws, about the matter, and having conferred with his advisers, said: "The Egyptian had the power to make his dispositions as he wished." Year […] of the deified Trajan, Tybi 20, in the case of Tryphon and others against Did[…], after other matters: Sulpicius Similis, having conferred with his advisers and having consulted Artemidoros the jurist, said: "It is said […] […] […] neither the wife, in whose favour the father of the bridegroom agreed on some innovation, nor her sons survive, by whom the terms of the agreement could be enforced, this document is now invalid. The law, as it is said, gives power to the one who arranged the 'total sale' (panprasion), while retaining his own property for the children, to choose one of them and make him heir. Therefore, since the second security has lapsed, the right has reverted to the first. It was permitted to him to appoint heirs as he wished, leaving his children as the ones for whom he made the 'total sale'."

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