Will of a Woman
Ends of 12 lines from the will of woman.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28397
Will of a woman from Oxyrhynchus TM 28397Oxyrhynchos100-150 CE
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Fragments of the will of a woman from Oxyrhynchus, drawn up with a male kinsman acting as her guardian. It preserves the standard clauses reserving her right to change the will during her lifetime, naming heirs and their children, mentioning slaves, and forbidding anyone to contravene her dispositions.
In English machine translation
[fragment 1]
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[Year] […] […] at Oxyrhynchus city of the Thebaid, with good fortune.
[These are the dispositions made, being sane and in her right mind, by] […] from Oxyrhynchus city, with as guardian her kinsman Panares (?) […]
[…] [in the street. For as long as I live I am to have power over my own property] to do whatever I wish concerning it and to alter [the will and to annul it, and whatever I do shall be valid. But if I die under this will] having done nothing, I leave as heirs […]
[…] [each of them if alive, but if not, his] children, of all that I may leave in any way whatsoever […]
[property.] […] of other offspring, which slaves together with those from Tereus (?) […]
[…] [and no one] shall be permitted to transgress any of the things ordered by me […]
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[fragment 2]
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[…] Ox[yrhynchus (?)] […]
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Only line ends survive; most of the wording is restored from the standard Oxyrhynchite will formulary. The text oddly places Oxyrhynchus in the Thebaid, and the guardian's name is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Will). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
jjp.42.104
[fragment 1] […]α ἔτους […] […] ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαίδος, ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ. τάδε διέθετο νοοῦσα καὶ φρονοῦσα […] ἀπ’ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως μετὰ κυρίου τοῦ συνγενοῦς Παναροῦς […] […] ἐν ἀγυιᾷ. ἐφ’ ὃν μὲν περίειμι χρόνον ἔχειν με τὴν τῶν ἰδίων ἐξουσίαν πᾶν ὃ ἐὰν βούλωμαι περὶ αὐτῶν ἐπι…