Revocation of a Will

Revocation of a Will

Published as number 13 in P.WashU.I;
Scope note: This document appears to be an impromptu cancellation of a will, and the subject is (for unknown reasons) unable to withdraw the orig witnesses. As the left half of the document is missing, there is room for four other witnesses, the number required for a legal will.;
1 papyrus fragment 22.7 x 8;
7 lines of text ;
documentary;
Will, Testament;
Oxyrhynchus, Phamenoth;
Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus;
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/throop.html;
Imaging and cataloging sponsored through APIS III, an NEH funded project.

PW 13 – Inv 127
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 . . .