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document, since the property is being inherited, the heir would naturally be
declaring it for the first time under his own name.
9 pi k oypajiactvou: the aorist participle indicates that the property
had not been registered earlier, a situation that would require an attempt to
trace the property back to its earlier owners, as suggested by Harmon (n. 8)
200-201.
11 rcepi KcttaX[ixcJ 6 toXoyia: The parallels for this expression use
&taOlKq not 6FoXoyia, e.g., POxy. 1.75.12 (129). The use of the term 6oXoyia,
and the verb [tpi[(tv in 1. 15 indicate that the property was transferred not by
a formal testament (&taOKq) after the death of the testator but rather inter
vivos through a so-called donatio mortis causa (cpttr-ia). See Harmon (n. 8)
146-152. For recent discussion of the differences between a 6taO1Kq and a
epte aic, see U. Yiftach, "Deeds of Last Will in Graeco-Roman Egypt: A Case
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