TESTAMENTUM OXYRHYNCHUM
   
Revocation of a will
     
( AD 161-169 )
 
 
P. Wash. Univ. I, 13 ( Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri ).
  
 
[ἔτους .. Αὐτοκράτορος  Καίσαρος  Μάρκου  Αὐρηλίου  Ἀντωνίνου  Σεβαστοῦ  καὶ  Αὐ]τοκράτο[ρο]ς Κα[ί]σαρο[ς  Λο]υκίου  Αὐρηλίου  Οὐήρου  Σεβαστοῦ  Ἐπεὶφ  ἐ[ν  Ὀ]ξυρ[ύ]γχων  π[ό]λει.  |  [μαρτυρεῖ - ca. 35 - ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς] Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως. ἐν ἀγυιᾷ ἀκολούθως τοῖς κελευσθεῖσι ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ Αἰλίου Ἀντωνίνου ὅτι δευτέ-|[ραν τιθέμενος διαθήκην ἠκύρωσε τὴν προτέραν διαθήκη]ν ἣν ἔθετο διὰ τοῦ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ πόλει ἀγορανομίου τῷ Φαμενὼθ τοῦ πέμπτου ἔτους θεοῦ Αἰλίου Ἀντωνίνου. προ̣σ̣έθ̣-|[ηκε] (hand 2) ..τος μητρὸς ........[.]μου τοῦ Ἑρμήνου δευτέραν τιθέμενος διαθήκην οὐκ ἠδυνήθην διὰ | [ - ca. ? - ]...[.......]..[..]..[....]...[.]. (hand 3) ..... καί εἰμι [ἐτῶν - ca. ? - ] | [.. οὐλ]ὴ ὀφρύι δεξιᾷ καὶ ἐστίν μου ἡ σφραγὶς | traces (hand 4) .. τῷ καθ᾽ ἓν αὐτὸν γράφειν .. | traces
 
English translation ( Washington University Papyri Collection ).
  
 
Year ... of the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and Emperor Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus, Epeiph .. in the city of Oxyrhynchus. ... from the same city of Oxyrhynchus, in the street, according to the commands of the deified Aelius Antoninus, testifies that in making a second will he has revoked the former will drawn up for him through the agoranomion in the same city in Phamenoth of the 5th year of the deified Aelius Antoninus. He has made additions to .... (H2) ... in making a second will I was unable ...
 

 
►  Bibliography
 
 
Schuman, Washington University Papyri, I, Missoula, 1980, n. 13 ; Pestman & Rupprecht, Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Aegypten, IX, Leiden, 1995, p. 370 ; Meerson, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Papyrology (Ann Arbor, 2007), Ann Arbor, 2010, pp. 542-543.
 
 
►  Source : Papyrus from Oxyrhynchus.