One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 14054

Roman will bequeathing sheep, house property and a slave TM 14054From Fayum (Karanis?)335 CE

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A fragmentary will drawn up in Roman form by an Aurelius, appointing heirs (including men whose father was Eudaimon), leaving sheep, house rooms, a slave and movable goods to relatives such as the daughter of his dead son Eudaimon, and arranging his burial. It is dated by the consuls of AD 335 and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.

In English machine translation

Aurelius […] son of […] from the village of […], being sane and in his right mind, made a will, and dictated that it be written […] […] (son?) of his father Eudaimon, and Isidoros likewise (son?) of his father Eudaimon […] […] let them be my heirs on the condition set out below, as each shall accept in what follows. Let all others be disinherited, and let them come to my inheritance for what is left to each, when they know and are able to testify that they are my heirs. […] […] and her, and (I grant) power of gift (?) […] […] ten, two full-grown white sheep […] […], whose neighbours are on the east […] […] and the places which they had and inhabit from my other house […] […] to the daughter of Eudaimon, my deceased son, three full-grown white sheep […] […] and the slave Andriskos and Isidoros concerning some […] […] let them also have in common and equally a fifth share for their portion […] […] and the other movables, furniture, equipment and household goods […] […] in all things […] having toiled (?) […] […] ten full-grown white sheep. The burial and laying out of my body […] […] When this will was made, Aurelius Artemidoros bought the household and property for a bronze assarion, […] holding the scales. He called to witness […] In the consulship of Julius Constantius, patrician, brother of our master Constantine Augustus, and of Rufius Albinus, the most illustrious […] […] just as also before this […] and moves in it, and having been asked in turn […] […] having appointed the rest as legatees […] […] Aurelius Melas son of Horion, from the same village […] […] Aurelius Heraklios […] I witness the will and have sealed it […]

The will follows the Roman ceremony of sale 'by bronze and scales' (mancipatio), with a symbolic buyer of the estate for one assarion and a scale-holder. Much of the formulaic text is restored from parallel wills.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Roman Will). 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 · 335 · Karanis (?) (Arsinoites)

Αὐρήλιος[…]υἱὸς[…]τοῦ[…]ἀπὸ κώμης[…]ς νοῶν καὶ φρονῶν διαθήκην ἐποίησεν γραφησομένην τε ὑπηγόρευσεν[…] […]μ…[…]πατρὸς Εὐδαίμονος καὶ Ἰσίδωρος ὁμοίως πατρὸς Εὐδαίμονος[…] […]κληρονόμοι μου ἔστωσαν αἱρέσει τῇ ὑποκειμένη καθὼς ἑξῆς ἕκαστος προσδέξεται. οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ πάντες ἀποκληρόνο…