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REVOCATION OF A WILL

Greek text: POxy 106
Date:   A.D. 135.

To the agoranomi of Oxyrhynchus from Apollonius son of Ptolemaeus, assistant. I hereby inform you that the strategos of the nome, Demetrius, has instructed me to give back to Ptolema daughter of Straton and Dionysia, of Oxyrhynchus, the will which she made through you in Mecheir of the 9th year of the deified Trajanus under seals, in compliance with her own request, and she has received it back through me. The 19th year of the Emperor Caesar Trajanus Hadrianus Augustus, Pharmouthi 25.

{Signed}   I, Ptolema daughter of Straton, have received my aforesaid will under the original seals. I, Pedon son of Callicomus, have professed myself her guardian, and wrote for her, as she is illiterate. The same date.


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