Will of Aurelius Petros of Tammon TM 17209Oxyrhynchos7. Febr. 586

643 [† In the reign] of our most divine and most pious master, greatest benefactor, Flavius Tiberius Mauricius, [the eternal] Augustus and Emperor, year 4, and in the consulship of the same our most pious master, year 3, Mecheir 13, indiction 4, year 264 and 231. [I, Aurelius] Petros, son of Pamtas, mother Martha, originating from the village of Tammon in the Oxyrhynchite nome, [make the dispositions] set out below, considering human affairs and the common end of life [and my] departure, and moreover being of sound mind and understanding, [bearing] the reckoning of my affairs well and rightly, [and] having my intellect strong and unimpaired, unharmed in my senses, knowing that [...] of this my last will, so as not to leave to those after me any pretext or quarrel [...] on account of my very small inheritance, having made the division, I [approached] the village scribe and dictated to him this my will or testament, which I also wish to have the force of a codicil [in the manner of] its provisions, to be valid and unshakeable before every authority and power, under civil and praetorian law and foreign law, for the sake of the main point. [...]