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Formulary of clauses for a Roman mancipatory will TM 28696unbekanntII - III

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A Latin model text giving standard clauses for a Roman will made by the formal sale procedure (mancipation). It covers the institution of posthumously born children as heirs, a request to the heir to free slaves within the limits of the lex Fufia Caninia, the validation of later codicils, and the closing record of the symbolic sale before scale-holder and witness.

In English machine translation

[recto] [Whoever shall have been born to me from her who is my wife, at the time] of my death, son or daughter, let him or her be, or let them be, my heir(s) […] And if any one, male or female, of these, whoever […] shall have been born, son or daughter, should die, let the disbursement […] of the inheritance be greater in proportion. Since, however, I know that I am not permitted by testament to manumit [more] […] than what is comprised in the Fufian-Caninian law […], I ask you, dearest heir, to manumit […] let the number of my runaway slaves not stand in the way of him […] If after this my testament has been declared I shall leave anything written and sealed in codicils, on papyrus, on parchment or in any other kind of material, by which, not by the proper law of testament or of the statutes, I shall have ordered anything to be given or done, [or if] while living I have given, donated, shall give […] or shall donate, [or] shall have forbidden a male or female slave to be free […], let it be valid just as if it had been provided for and comprised in this testament. Let wrongful deceit be absent from this testament. The household and property, for the purpose of making the testament, so-and-so bought for 1 sesterce […]; scale-holder in the place of so-and-so; so-and-so was called as witness. [verso] […]

The lex Fufia Caninia (2 BC) capped how many slaves could be freed by will. The names are left blank ("quis", "quem"), showing this is a template rather than an actual will.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Formulare für Bestandteile von Manzipationstestamenten). 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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chla.11.496

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II - III

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