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Opening of a will, perhaps a draft, of Sambathion daughter of Neilos, a woman of the metropolis with poor eyesight acting with a guardian, written in AD 117-118 at Karanis. It mentions proceedings before the archidikastes, her house-born slave Abaskantos, and relatives of the Julius Sabinus family, who are asked to see to her laying out and burial.
The text breaks off and may be an unfinished draft; the freeing of Abaskantos and the identification of the heirs as her nephew Gaius Julius Sabinus and his son rest on interpretation of damaged lines. The archidikastes was a senior judicial official at Alexandria.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Will of Sambathion). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Uncompleted beginning of the will of a woman, Sambathion, making reference to extracts from the proceedings of the archidikastes, giving freedom(?) to her slave Abaskantos and designating as residuary legtees of the testator her nephew Gaius Iulius Sabinus and his son, with the r…
[…] ἔτους δευτέρου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ τάδε διεθέμην νοοῦσα καὶ φρονοῦσα Σαμβάθιον Νείλου τοῦ Νείλου τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως ὡς ἐτῶν[…]ἀσθενὴς τὰς ὄψεις μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ[…]Σωκράτους τοῦ Σαραπίωνος τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς μητροπόλεως ὑπο […]τοὺς γεγονότας ἐπὶ…
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