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Dryton, Apollonia and descendants

TM Arch id: 74

Quick facts
bilingual: Greek and Demotic
private: family archive (3 generations)
Found in: U04a - Pathyris (Gebelein)
BC02 BC01
Also called archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia and their daughter Senmouthis; Dryton son of Pamphilos; Druton

Protagonist: Dryton son of Pamphilos, Cretan cavalry officer and citizen of Ptolemais, has a son Esthladas from his first marriage. He marries for the second time to Apollonia alias Senmonthis with whom he had five daughters. Apollonia added her papers to the archive. After Dryton's death in 126 BC the archive was continued by his oldest daughter Apollonia alias Senmouthis and her husband Kaies, who also kept papers of their daughters and their son-in-law Phagonis. (Go to TM People)

Description: wills, marriage and divorce contracts, loans, receipts, petitions, letters, lists, accounts, one literary text, tax receipts

Publication: P. Dryton

Studies: Vandorpe, The bilingual family archive of Dryton [P. Dryton], 2002; Vandorpe / Waebens, Reconstructing Pathyris’ archives, 2010, p. 102-113 no. 36; Broux, in A Blackwell companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt, 2019, p. 397-399; Tambs, Pathyris, a Network Analytical Approach, 2022, vol. 1, p. 132-145

Lists: Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 251 no. 14e; Seidl, Ptolemäische Rechtsgeschichte, 1962, p. 29-30 no. 7

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Stable URI (with TM Arch ID): www.trismegistos.org/archive/74
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69 texts (of which 62 certain, 6 uncertain, 1 related)

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TM number Publication Status Material Language Date
TM 171 P. Gebelen Heid. 36 uncertain papyrus Demotic BC 199 - 88
TM 65616 Esposito, Il fragmentum Grenfellianum (Eikasmos 12) p. 73-83 + Archiv für Papyrusforschung (AfP) 52 (2006), p. 199-200 no. 2 certain papyrus Greek BC 199 - 100
TM 365 P. Dryton 47 certain papyrus Greek BC 199 - 100
TM 247 P. Grenf. 1 11 + Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri 3.1 p. 390-391 no. 5 uncertain papyrus Greek BC 181 Aug 27 after (P05, year 24, Epeiph 25)
TM 397894 Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri 3.1 p. 392-393 no. 6 uncertain papyrus Greek BC 181 Aug 27 after (P05, year 24, Epeiph 25; cf. Chrest. Mitt. 32)
TM 246 SB 30 17332 certain papyrus Greek BC 174 Oct 10 ((P06), year 08, Thoth 05)
TM 294 P. Dryton 12 certain papyrus Demotic / Greek BC 171 Sep 1 (P06, year 10, Mesore 02)
TM 266 P. Grenf. 1 42 uncertain papyrus Greek BC 169 Oct 4 - 168 Oct 3 (P06 P08 K2)
TM 44872 P. Dryton 1 certain papyrus Demotic / Greek BC 164 May 31 - Jun 29 ((P08), year 06, Pachons)
TM 661 P. Dryton 10 descr. certain papyrus Demotic BC 164 Jan 18 ((P06), year 06, Choiak 18)
TM 643 P. Dryton 44 certain papyrus Greek BC 154 - 142 after
TM 642 P. Dryton 43 certain papyrus Greek a: BC 154 - 142 after ((P08))
b: BC 154 - 142 after ((P08))
TM 619 P. Dryton 38 certain papyrus Greek BC 142 Sep 28 - 141 Sep 26 after?
or BC 153 Sep 30 - 152 Sep 29 after?
TM 44107 P. Dryton 46 certain papyrus Greek BC 150 after
TM 644 P. Dryton 20 certain papyrus Demotic / Greek BC 150 after?
TM 248 P. Dryton 2 certain papyrus Greek BC 150 Mar 4 (P06 K2 (EP), year 31, Mecheir 06)
TM 296 P. Dryton 35 certain papyrus Demotic BC 150 - 115
TM 299 P. Dryton 13 certain papyrus Demotic BC 145 - 142
TM 357 P. Dryton 48 certain papyrus Demotic / Greek BC 145 - 116 ((P08))
TM 295 P. Dryton 14 certain papyrus Demotic BC 143 - 137 ((P06) (P08) K2, [ ] 18)
TM 293 P. Dryton 45 certain papyrus Demotic BC 141 after
TM 288 P. Dryton 21 certain papyrus Demotic / Greek BC 140 after ((P08?))
TM 291 P. Dryton 22 certain papyrus Greek BC 140 after ((P08))
TM 286 P. Dryton 31 certain papyrus Greek BC 140 - 130 ((P08))
TM 181 P. Gebelen Heid. 24 uncertain papyrus Demotic BC 139 Mar 2 (P08, year 31, Mecheir 07)
TM 250 P. Dryton 37 certain papyrus Greek BC 139 Nov 18 ((P08), year 32, Phaophi 23)
TM 628 P. Dryton 15 certain papyrus Demotic BC 139 Oct 6 (P08, year 32, Thoth 10)
TM 269 P. Dryton 39 certain papyrus Greek BC 137 Sep 26 - 136 Sep 25 about ((P08))
TM 287 P. Dryton 32 certain papyrus Greek BC 137 Jul 3 - 130 Jan 15 ((P08); Vandorpe Diss. 282)
TM 253 P. Dryton 33 certain papyrus Greek BC 136 Jun 20 ((P08), year 34, Pachons 28)
TM 133408 SB 30 17334 certain papyrus Greek BC 136 - 124 about
TM 252 P. Dryton 33 bis certain papyrus Greek BC 136 Jun 20 ((P08), year 34, Pachons 28)
TM 283 P. Dryton 40 certain papyrus Greek BC 135 Aug 22 - Sep 20 ((P08), year 35, Mesore)
TM 503 P. Dryton 41 certain papyrus Greek BC 135 Sep 10 ((P08), year 35, Mesore 20)
TM 338 P. Dryton 28 certain papyrus Demotic BC 135 after ((P10) KB)
TM 641 P. Dryton 42 certain papyrus Greek BC 134 Jul 26 ((P08), year 36, Epeiph 04)
TM 254 P. Dryton 16 certain papyrus Greek BC 131 Jan 4 ((P08), year 39, Choiak 12)
TM 4198 P. Dryton 30 certain papyrus Greek BC 131 - 113 ((P08?))
TM 290 P. Dryton 36 certain papyrus Greek BC 130 Jan 15 ((P08), year 40, Choiak 23)
TM 255 P. Dryton 17 certain papyrus Greek BC 129 May 14 ((P08), year 41, Pharmouthi 23)
TM 298 P. Dryton 18 certain papyrus Demotic BC 128 Mar 15 (P08, year 42, Mecheir 23)
TM 257 P. Dryton 19 certain papyrus Greek BC 127 Nov 7 ((P08), year 44, Phaophi 15)
TM 268 P. Dryton 3 certain papyrus Greek BC 126 Jun 29
TM 258 P. Dryton 4 certain papyrus Greek BC 126 Jun 29 ((P08), year 44, Pauni 09)
TM 987395 Analecta Papyrologica 34 (2022), p. 21-28 certain papyrus Greek BC 126 before
TM 44880 P. Dryton 58 certain pottery Demotic BC 126 - 88 (cf. the range of the archive)
TM 176 P. Dryton 23 certain papyrus Demotic BC 124 - 116 ((P08))
TM 133407 SB 30 17333 certain papyrus Greek BC 124 Feb 20 - Mar 21 ((P08), year 46, Mecheir)
TM 297 P. Dryton 6 certain papyrus Demotic BC 123 - 100
TM 285 P. Dryton 5 certain papyrus Demotic BC 123 Mar 25 (P08, year 47, Phamenoth 04; cf. DBL)
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