Copy of a Greek-style will drawn up before the agoranomos (notary) at Ptolemais Euergetis in the reign of Trajan, extracted in year 2 of Hadrian from documents filed. The testator, […]krates son of Herakleides, leaves his estate equally to his children by his wife Theano and leaves her the household goods, charging her with his funeral and the payment of his debts.
In English machine translation
Copy of a will extracted from documents submitted […] in the 2nd year of Hadrian the lord, Phamenoth 18.
Year […] of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus […], month […], […] at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome, before […] the agoranomos. […]krates son of Herakleides also called Hermogenes, aged about […] years, being of sound mind and judgement, made the following dispositions. May I, while in good health, have full power over my own affairs, and to alter and annul this will without hindrance. But if I die, I leave to the children born to me by my own wife Theano daughter of Harpalos, Dem[…] […] and to the children who will be born to me, in equal shares, all my property […] and allotments and slaves; and to my own wife Theano […] the movable furniture, utensils and household goods that I shall leave behind and whatever may accrue to me in any way whatever, on condition that she also spend […] for the funeral and laying out, as she chooses […] from one another 2 […] of the children and of what belongs […] free of guardianship. The same Theano, also out of […] property and allotments and slaves […] shall pay whatever I appear to owe on loans […] 300 drachmas of silver and other […] […]eides 6 (drachmas?) of silver, and the same Theano shall distribute […] and garments […] I alienated to her […] […] and Apollo[…] […] Heraklides Samba[…] likewise […] […]pos aged 39 […]
Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus […] at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome […] aged about […] with her guardian, her husband […]
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The will itself dates from Trajan's reign; the copy was made in Hadrian's second year (AD 117/118). Much of the wording is restored from standard will formulae.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Staatsnotarielles ’griechisches’ 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.