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End of a Roman will with mancipatio clause and witness list TM 69909Roman CE 91
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Closing section of a Roman will in Latin, with the standard clauses on codicils, the exclusion of fraud, and the formal sale of the estate by bronze and scales (mancipatio). It is dated by the consuls of AD 91 and year 11 of Domitian, followed by the names of witnesses, some in Greek.
In English machine translation
[If after this will has been declared I leave anything written and sealed in codicils, on papyrus,]
on parch[ment or in any other form,]
by wh[ich I order anything to be given or done not by the proper law of wills as legacy,]
[or if I have given or granted anything while alive, or shall give or grant, or]
[forbid any male or female slave to be] free, [let it be valid][…]
[…]
From this wil[l let fraud be absent.]
The estate and mon[ey for the purpose of making the will were bought by][…][for 1 sesterce]
[the s]cale-holder being Ti[…]
the witness called was […]
The will [was made][…]
in the consulship of Marcus Acilius Glabr[io and Marcus Ulpius Traianus],
in year 11 of Emperor Cae[sar Domitian Augustus Germanicus][…]
Tiberius Cla[udius][…]
[…]
Ti[…] Silouei[os][…]
Marcus Caunius […]
Tiberius Claud[ius][…]
Gaius Julius[…]
The will was made by the Roman procedure of mancipatio familiae, a symbolic sale of the estate for one sesterce before a scale-holder (libripens) and witnesses. Most of the formulaic text is restored from parallel wills.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Will, Roman CE 91). 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.9.399
si quid ego post hoc testamentum nuncupatum codicillis charta membrana alioue quo genere scriptum signatumque reliquero per quod non recto testamenti iure legume dari aut fieri iussero aut si quid uel uiuus dedi donaui dedero donauero uel liberum liberamue esse uetuero aut seruum…