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Application to the strategos for the opening of a freedwoman's will TM 20983OxyrhynchusA.D. 174

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Theon son of Pauseirion of Oxyrhynchus asks the strategos Isidoros to have the will of a deceased freedwoman opened. He presents the will she had deposited with him, brings four of its witnesses, and reports paying the 12-drachma fee for opening a will.

In English machine translation

To Isidoros, strategos, from Theon son of Pauseirion also called Germanios, son of Isas, his mother being Tausarapis also called Seraous, from the city of Oxyrhynchus. A…arion, freedwoman of Sarapion son of Apollonios, her mother being Herakleous, from the same city, on her death deposited with me a will to be handed over, which she drew up through the agoranomos office here in the month Germanikeios of the past thirteenth year of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord, to be opened after her death. Therefore, presenting this and producing, from among those who witnessed the will, as witnesses Dionysios also called Amois son of Herakleides son of Dionysios also called Amois, his mother being Sarapous, and Diogenes son of Apollophanes son of Diogenes, and Sarapion son of Chairemon son of Sosibios, and Agathos Daimon, freedman of Herakleides and of Sarapion also called Dorion, all four from the same city, and having accordingly, in conformity with what has been ordered, paid to Horos also called Horion and Demetrios the 12 drachmas fixed to be given for the opening of a will, I request that the opening of the will take place. Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Germanicus Maximus, Pauni ⟦18⟧ 14. I, Theon son of Pausirion, have submitted it. Pauni 18 […] […]

The testatrix's name is only partly legible. The date was corrected in the text from Pauni 18 to Pauni 14, and a second dated line (Pauni 18) follows the signature.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Demande d’ouverture d’un 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.

Demand to open a will

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · 72070 · A.D. 174 · Oxyrhynchus

The text is complete and well preserved. It contains a two-line subscription. According to the normal procedure, the necessary steps have already been taken (the copy of the testament has been presented, the witnesses have appeared, and the tax has been paid.

p.fouad.1.32

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 8. Juni 174 · Oxyrhynchos

Ἰσιδώρῳ στρατηγῷ παρὰ Θέωνος Παυσειρίωνος τοῦ καὶ Γερμανίου Ἰσᾶτος μητρὸς Ταυσαράπιος τῆς καὶ Σεραοῦτος ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. Α…αριον, ἀπελευθέρα Σαραπίωνος Ἀπολλωνίου, μητρὸς Ἡρακλοῦτος, ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως, τελευτῶσα παρέθετό μοι ἐκδόσιμον ἧς ἔθετο διὰ τοῦ ἐνθάδε ἀγορανομίου τ…