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Will establishing a cult foundation and burial with a pyramid tomb TM 31907OxyrhynchosIII

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Fragment of a will or testamentary foundation from Oxyrhynchus, 3rd century AD, in which the testator arranges for a woman to perform regular cult offerings, including wine and grapes, to Plution, and to have use of a dining hall in the Camp quarter. The heirs are to pay her 600 drachmas, spend money on the testator's burial, and build a pyramid tomb near the shrine of 'my god'.

In English machine translation

[…] performing the customary rites both on the festival days […] on each day crowning and making offerings […] to Plution 30 jars of wine […] wine-press and 30 bunches of grapes […] I wish her to have the right […] instead of the […] […] my […] Plution […] in the quarter […] of the Camp, at the so-called hay-store […] of the dining hall, for feasting with […] on whatever days she wishes, without hindrance […] and of all her brothers Theon […] they shall give her 600 drachmas of silver, all my wishes being valid. They shall spend on the laying-out of my body […]00 drachmas of silver and shall build over it a pyramid […] of 300 drachmas, with the supervision of […] Theon, unless another […] either to the west of my god or to the east of it, at an interval of 6 cubits, so that not […] and I wish also the […] them […] those things that were ordered by […] my sister and […] and she will gratify me […] […] word for word nothing of the […] for let it be […] any of the […]

Plution is a form of Pluto, a god of the underworld; 'my god' probably refers to a deified statue or shrine associated with the testator. The document is classed as a foundation (Stiftung) within a will.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Stiftung). 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 · III · Oxyrhynchos

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