One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25137

Registry roll fragments with copy of a will bequeathing a house TM 25137Dura - Europosspätes I

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Fragments of a registry roll of copies of documents from Dura-Europos, late 1st century AD. Fragment A mentions an acknowledgement involving one Epinikos; fragment B preserves the opening of a will made before the strategos and epistates of the city, bequeathing a house received by allotment, with its entrances and doors.

In English machine translation

[A] […] […] […] […] […] acknowledged […] […] Epinikos son of Dio[…] [B] […] [In the presence of so-and-so, strategos and epi]states of the city, and of the [witnesses written below:] […] [So-and-so made the following dispositions: May it be granted] to me, while in good health, [to be master of my own property;] […] […] [but if I die, I leave] my dwelling which I received [by allotment] […] […] [with entrance and ex]it and all the other [appurtenances and rights belonging to it] […] […] and […] […] with doors [and brickwork(?)] […] […] declared […] […] to Kallistratos (?) […] […]

Most of the will formula in fragment B is restored by the editor from parallel Dura testaments; the name Kallistratos is also largely restored. The strategos and epistates was the chief civic official of Dura.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Registry Roll of Copies). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.dura.16

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · spätes I · Dura - Europos

[A] […]η[…] […]ιλαι β[…] […]ωμολογήσατο[…] […] Ἐπίνικος Διο[…] [B] […]ἐπὶ τοῦ δεῖνος στρατηγοῦ καὶ ἐπιστάτου τῆς πόλεως καὶ τῶν ὑπογεγραμμένων μαρτύρων· […]τάδε διέθετο ὁ δεῖνα· εἴη μέν μοι ὑγιαίνοντι τῶν ἐμαυτοῦ κύριον εἶναι,[…] […]ἐὰν δὲ τελευτήσω, καταλείψω τήν μου οἴκησιν ἣν …