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Opening of a will with list of sealing witnesses TM 22659Alexandria186

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End of a Greek copy of a Roman-style will, made in AD 186 at Alexandria, followed by the list of witnesses who sealed it. It then records the official opening and reading of the will at the office of the inheritance and manumission tax in the Patrika quarter of Alexandria, where the witnesses acknowledged their seals.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] ... [...] from [...] [The will was made] [...] [...] of May, when Imperator [Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus for the] 5th time and Acilius Glabrio for the 2nd time [were consuls; year 26 of Imperator Caesar Marcus] Aurelius Commodus Antoninus P[ius Felix Augustus Armeniacus Medicus] Parthicus Sarmaticus Germanicus [Britannicus Maximus] [...] [...] ... [...] I have made my dispositions [as written above] [...] [...] ... [...] having sealed [...] [...]cianus Philosarapis, Aurelius [...] [...]s, Aurelius Theon, Marcus [...] [...] [Gaius Ant]onius Chairemon also called Apollonios, Titus [...] [Marcus Marius Ti]berinus, Lucius Titius Nemesianus. It was [opened and read in] [Alexandria] by Egypt, in the Patrika quarter, at the office [of the five-percent tax on inheritances and manumissions], on the 5th day before the Ides of [...], in the same year and under the same consuls [...] [...] ... sealers at the opening, who also recognized [their seals] [...] [...] [Ascle]piades, Titus Pactumeius, Aurelius Theon, Marcus [...] [...] [A]chilleus, Gaius Antonius Chairemon also called Apollonios [...] [...] Marcus Marius Tiberinus, Lucius Titius Numisianus [...]

The five-percent tax (vicesima hereditatium et manumissionum) was a Roman tax on inheritances and slave manumissions; wills of Roman citizens were opened at its office. One witness's cognomen appears as Nemesianus in the first list and Numisianus in the second.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Opening of a 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.

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bgu.13.2244

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 186 · Alexandria

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