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Copy of a woman's will leaving property to her daughters TM 11883Tebtunis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt190/191 A. D.

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Fragmentary copy of a woman's will from Tebtynis, drawn up before the agoranomos in year 31 (AD 190/191). She names her daughters as heirs, distributing a paternal house, a plot called Kourion and catoecic land at Theogonis, on condition they arrange her funeral; witnesses' sealing statements follow.

In English machine translation

Copy of a will. Year 31, […] before the agoranomos. The following dispositions were made by […], being sound of mind and understanding, […] of Theon, from the same village […] If I die under this will, I leave as heirs my daughters born [to me] […] […] of the things disposed by me, to each sister […] the paternal house and the plot called Kourion […] according to the marriage contract lying with me […] and cession […] at the village of Theogonis, of a catoecic allotment of […] arouras […] and in Tebtynis […] to the two, Didyme(?) and Thenapynchis and Z[…] but if […] my daughters shall carry out the funeral and laying-out of my body […] with her guardian, her husband Dioskoros son of Go[…] […] and now the aforementioned house plots and the […] Kalliope […] and on the same terms, and from the reading […] as stated above. I bear witness and will seal with a seal engraved with Isis, Didymos, fatherless, son of [mother …]. […] I will seal with a seal engraved with Apollo, Kronion son of Maron son of Kronion, [mother …] […] I wrote on behalf of my wife, who is illiterate, Pasi[…] Didymos, fatherless, mother Tha[…] […] […] from the village of Tebtynis […] […] from the village of Tebtynis […] […] and I recognized my own seal […] […] […] […] […]

Year 31 corresponds to the reign of Commodus. "Fatherless" (apator) marks a person of unknown or illegitimate paternity, identified by the mother's name.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment einer Testamentsabschrift). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

Will

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P. Lund. inv. 21 · 190/191 A. D. · Tebtunis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

(Copy of) will

p.lund.6.6

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 190 - 191 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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