The Testamentum Dasumii refers to an inscription in several pieces found in Rome, that bears the only Roman will inscribed on stone.
Theodor Mommsen reconstructed this document for publication in the series Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum,[1] which was considered as faithful as possible until the recovery of a further piece by Antonio Ferrua in the 1970s, which added to the first 19 lines of the inscription.
Mommsen embraced this identification, and at one point the testator was identified with Lucius Dasumius Hadrianus, suffect consul about 93, but various details prevented complete acceptance.
[6] More recently, Joshua Tate has raised the possibility that the testator may not even be a senator, but points out that many problems in the document are resolved if he had been a wealthy freedman.
[8] Pliny the Younger recounts the opening of the will of his friend Domitius Tullus, without providing any information on the legal language of the document.