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Will of an Oxyrhynchite man in favour of his daughter TM 128743Oxyrhynchos117 - 138

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A fragmentary will drawn up at Oxyrhynchus in the reign of Hadrian. The testator, whose name is lost, leaves property, apparently including a vacant plot and fractional shares, to his daughter Tnephe[…] and others including Seuthes and Papontos, and the document ends with the subscriptions of several witnesses who sealed it and a record-office docket.

In English machine translation

[Year] […] of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, […] in the city of Oxyrhynchus in the Thebaid, with good fortune. The following dispositions were made by […], being sound of mind and judgement, […]chios from the city of Oxyrhynchus, […] in the street. May I, while in good health, be master of my own property, to use and manage it in whatever way I choose. But if I die under this will, I leave […] to my daughter Tnephe[…], born to me of […] daughter of Papontos, […] from […] if she is living, but if not, […] […] […]on son of Ptolemaios, grandson of Ptolemaios […] […] […] vacant plot and […] […] the two […] Seuthes and Papontos […] if they are […] […] […]ty, but if they are not […] […] for each mina, each month. […] The will is valid. […] I have made the will and […] […] my two aforementioned […] […] […] plot and one half and one quarter […] share […] […] […] and to the same two […] […] […] within two years […] […] I consent to all the aforementioned […] […] […] from the Panga Iseion(?), aged […] years […] wrote on his behalf, since he does not know letters. […] I witness the will and sealed it with a seal […] […] I witness the will and sealed it with a seal […] […] I witness the will and […] […]. Peten[…] […] I witness the will and sealed it with a seal […] […] I witness the will and sealed it with a seal […] I witness the will and sealed it with a seal bearing Kanopos. [Record office of the city of Oxyrhynchus] [Year […] of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus] […]. [Will of […] from the city of Oxyrhynchus].

Much of the text is restored from the standard Oxyrhynchite will formulary, so the specific bequests are largely lost. One witness describes his seal as bearing a figure of Kanopos (the canopic Osiris); the reading of the place of origin as the Panga Iseion is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 117 - 138 · Oxyrhynchos

ἔτους […] Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ,[…]ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαΐδος, ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ. τάδε διέθετο νο[…] καὶ φρον[…]χίου ἀπ’ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως […], ἐν ἀγυιᾷ. εἴη μέν μοι ὑγιαίνο[…] κυρι[…] εἶναι τῶν ἐμαυτ[…], χρᾶσθαι καὶ διοικεῖν περὶ αὐτῶν καθ’ ὃν ἐὰν αἱρῶμαι…