Testament
Fragment of the copy of a testament "per aes et libram", which was included in the report of the opening of the testament
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 69899
Latin will per aes et libram with bequests to wife and daughters TM 69899perhaps Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt147 A.D.
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Fragment of a Latin will made by the Roman form of sale 'by bronze and scales', leaving property to the testator's wife and daughters Diogenis and Theodora, and entrusting Theodora with the care of his body. It was drawn up at Oxyrhynchus (here placed in the Thebaid) in AD 147.
In English machine translation
[…] to my wife whom I love, with whom […]
[…] if any […] in the house […]
[either silver] or bronze vessels or [furniture]
[…] if she has, which also not liable to account […]
[…] to Diogenis my daughter and […]
[…] to keep or, safely (?), after her death, to be distributed to [her] children […] which […]
[…] Claudius (?) gift (?) […]
[…] of the month 20 Augustan drachmas […]
[…] to Theodora my beloved daughter by this will. [Let wrongful deceit be absent.]
[…] the care of my body I entrust to the judgment [of Theodora] my [daughter]. If [anything after this] will shall be written or signed [by my hand] on tablets, codicils [or in any other] form, by which I shall have ordered anything to be given or done, I wish [it to be valid] as if it [had been written] in this will.
For the purpose of making the will, Tirem[…] bought the household and property, [the scale-holder being] Claudius Unio; called as witness was […]
⟦in which Tirem[…] sealed⟧
[Done at Oxyrhyn]chus in the Thebaid, on the 6th day before the Ides of […], in the consulship of [Lucius Annius Largus and Gaius Prastina] Messallinus, in year 10 […] [of Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus], [month] […], [day] […].
The will was made by mancipatio 'per aes et libram', a fictitious sale of the estate to a familiae emptor in front of a scale-holder (libripens) and witnesses; this copy formed part of the record of the will's opening. 'Anelogistam' renders Greek anelogistos, 'not liable to render account'.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
chla.5.301
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