Fragment of the end of a Roman will translated into Greek, with standard clauses validating bequests and grants of freedom to slaves, followed by the fictitious sale of the estate per aes et libram to Lucius […]ius Tiro. It was made at Oxyrhynchus on 28 September 213, under Caracalla's fourth consulship.
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[…] I wish. If I have given anything […], let it be valid; [if] anything […], let it be invalid. If I have ordered anyone to be free, male or female, let him or her be free; [if] I have prevented anyone from being free, let him or her not be free.
At the making of the testament, Lucius […]ius Tiro bought the household and property for one sesterce coin, Marcus Aurelius Lollianus holding the scales; he called as witness Marcus Aurelius […]n also called Theon.
The testament was made in the city of Oxyrhynchus on the fourth day before the Kalends of October, in the consulship of our lord Imperator Antoninus Pius Augustus for the fourth time […]
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The purchase 'for one sesterce' with a scale-holder (libripens) reflects the Roman formal mancipatory will, here rendered in Greek. 'Antoninus Pius' is Caracalla, whose fourth consulship fell in 213.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Versione in greco di un testamento romano). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.