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Application for the opening of a grandfather's will TM 15928Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 187

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Ptolemaios son of Diogenes of Tholthis asks the two officials appointed to open wills to unseal the will of his deceased paternal grandfather Ptolemaios, made at the Talao record office in AD 185, in the presence of four witnesses from Tholthis. He states he has paid the 16-drachma fee. Written in Thoth of Commodus' 28th year (AD 187) in the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] To Dionysios, former kosmetes, and Herakleides, former agoranomos, both chosen for the opening of wills, from Ptolemaios son of Diogenes, also called Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios, his mother being Apollonous, from the village of Tholthis in the lower toparchy. My paternal grandfather Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios son of Menas, his mother being Apollonous, from the same Tholthis, having made a will under seals through the record office of Talao in the 25th year of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, in Tybi, has died. Therefore, submitting the copy (?) of it, I ask that it be opened, there being present for the opening, of the witnesses, Pantonymos son of Pauseiris and Thonis son of Sarapas and […]enes son of Diogenes and Hephaistion son of Harthotes son of Pekysis, the 4 from the same Tholthis. And I have paid the 16 drachmas for the opening. Year 28 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Sarmaticus Germanicus Maximus Britannicus, Thoth […]. I, Ptolemaios son of Diogenes, have submitted it. [verso] For gluing (into the roll) […]

Roman wills were sealed and could only be opened officially in the presence of witnesses who had sealed them. The petitioner's double name suggests adoption, explaining his grandfather is also listed as father-line Ptolemaios.'Ekdosimon' probably refers to the document as issued for opening.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for the Opening of a 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 · 29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 187 · Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)

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