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Copy of the will of Lucius Ignatius Rufinus with record of its opening TM 10689Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)3. Juni 211
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Copy of the Latin will of Lucius Ignatius Rufinus of Antinoopolis, made at Philadelphia on 3 March 211, naming his brother Lucius Ignatius Nemesianus heir and leaving land and half a house to his wife Lucretia Octavia, who nursed him in illness. It includes the record of its official opening and reading at the metropolis of the Arsinoite nome on 3 June 211, with the witnesses recognizing their seals.
In English machine translation
Copy of a will.
Lucius Ignatius Rufinus, Antinoite, made his will. Let Lucius Ignatius Nemesianus, my brother, be my heir to the whole of all my property. Let all others be disinherited, and let him accept my inheritance within the next 100 days from when he knows and is able to be heir, without malicious fraud. I give and bequeath to Lucretia Octavia, my wife, who labored much during my illness, 5 1/2 arouras (iugera) of grain land in the place Potamon, beside the side of Serenus, and half of my house which is called […] beside Antonius Didymianus, veteran. If anything should come by reason of debt or any account, it shall be settled by my heir, and whatever I have in my house, I wish it to belong to my wife. I wish my body to be buried […] by my brother and heir written above.
In the village of Philadelphia of the Arsinoite nome, division of Herakleides, 5th day before the Nones of March, in the consulship of Faustinus and Rufinus, year 19 of the Emperors Caesars Lucius Septimius Severus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Publius Septimius Geta Augusti, month Phamenoth day 7.
Copy of the subscription: I, Lucius Ignatius Rufinus, have made my dispositions as stated above.
Opened and read in the Augustan forum of the metropolis of the Arsinoite nome, 3rd day before the Nones of June, in the consulship of Quintianus and Bassus, in the same year, month Pauni day 9, in the presence of the greater part of the signatories who had affixed their seals. Lucius Valerius Lucretianus, I recognized (my seal). Marcus L[…]nus, I recognized. Flavius Didu Diogenes, I recognized. Arrius Nigerus, I recognized. Marcus Aurelius Anubion. Lucius A[…] Cottarus.
The will follows Roman formulas (heir by cretio, disinheritance clause); the Latin is non-standard. The land measure is given as iugera though Egyptian arouras are probably meant.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Rapport d’ouverture de testament). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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exemplum testamenti. Lucius Ignatius Rufinus Antinoites testamentum fecit. Lucius Ignatius Nemesianus frater meus ex asse mihi heres esto o bonorum meorum. ceteri o exheredes sunto‡1, cernitoque hereditatem meam infra diem centesimum proximis qua sciet poterit heredem esse sine d…