IL TESTAMENTO ROMANO ATTRAVERSO LA PRASSI DOCUMENTALE DI MARIOAMELOTTI: A CINQUANT’ANNI DALLA PUBBLICAZIONE DI UN LIBRO ESEMPLARE

Abstract

THE ROMAN TESTAMENT THROUGH DOCUMENTAL PRACTICE» BY MARIO AMELOTTI:
FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF AN EXEMPLARY BOOK
Half a century after its publication, the Author reviews Amelotti’s monograph, contextualizing it at the time it was written
and updating it in the light of new papyrological discoveries, intervening in the doctrinal debate and in the exegesis of the texts. In
particular, 15 wills are considered; testaments of: I. Antonius Silvanus (Tablettes Keimer); II. Gaius Longinus Castor (BGU I
326); III. Tiberius Claudius Alexander (P.Oxy. XXXVIIII 2857); IV. Form for writing a will per aes et libram (P.Hamb. I 72); V.
testament of …]cianus Philosarapis (BGU XIII 2244); VI. Gaius Iulius Diogenes (P.Oxy. LII 3692); VII. Gaius Hostilius Clemens
(P.Berol. inv.13887 = ChLA X 427); VIII. Marcus Lucretius Minor (P.Diog. 9); IX. Lucius Ignatius Rufinus (P.Diog. 10); X. Sabinia
Apollonarion (PSI XIII 1325 rr. 9-25); XI. of an unknown Aurelius (PSI inv. 1686 verso = P.Bagnall 5); XII. of an unknown
Aurelius (P.Laur.I 4); XIII. of an unknown Aurelius (P.NYU II 39); XIV. Testament of an unknown [R.S.O. TOMLIN, A Roman
Will from North Wales, «Archaeologia Cambrensis» CL (2004), pp. 143-156]; XV. of Iulius Pompeianus [P. ROTHENHÖFER – J.
BLÄNSDORF, sana mente sanaque memoria testamentum feci. Eine testamentarische Verfügung vom 12. April 340 n.Chr., «Gephyra
» XIII (2016), pp. 153-163].