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Agreement between two co-heirs concerning the will of Hermias TM 21996Oxyrhynchos27. März - 25. Apr. 187

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An agreement made at Oxyrhynchus in AD 187 between Platonis also called Ophelia, widow of Theon also called Hermias, and Herais, granddaughter of the testator Hermias, who were named joint heirs in his will. The surviving text recites the will's terms, including provisions in favour of Platonis' minor sons, before breaking off.

In English machine translation

[recto] Platonis also called Ophelia, daughter of Horion, her mother being Diogenis, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, with her guardian, her full brother Platon, to Herais daughter of Apion, her mother being Herais, from the same city, with her guardian, her husband Herodes son of Apollonios also called Didymos, from the same city, greetings. Since by the will which was made, under seals, through the record office here in the month of Pharmouthi of the present twenty-seventh year of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, by Hermias son of Hermes, his mother being Herakleia, from the same city, your maternal grandfather and adoptive father of my late husband Theon also called Hermias, a will under which he died without altering it and which has also been opened, he left us both heirs, after the bequests (?) which he ordered, he wished therefore that we, to the minor sons of myself and of my aforementioned late husband, to the elder of them Pausiris also called Herm[…], a special portion […] [… 2 lines lost …] [verso] [… 6 lines lost …]

The will was deposited under seals at the agoranomeion (record office) and opened after the testator's death; the operative terms of the agreement are lost. The phrase rendered 'bequests' translates a corrupt word in the text.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract concerning an Inheritance). 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 · 27. März - 25. Apr. 187 · Oxyrhynchos

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