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Papyrus 607

Record Id:

040-002104991

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002c1

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100143128730.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 607

Title:

Second Will of Dryton (P.Dryton 2, SB I 4637, P.Grenf. I 12, P.Lond. III 607 descr., TM 248)

Scope & Content:

Fragments of the second will of Dryton, drawn up in Latopolis, in the office of the notary Ptolemaeus, on the occasion of Dryton’s second marriage with Apollonia alias Senmonthis. His possessions are to be divided between Esthladas, son from his first marriage, and the children who may be born of Apollonia. The six witnesses are then listed, with no autograph subscriptions. Further fragments of the same papyrus are in Cairo and Heidelberg.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104991

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 607 : Second Will of Dryton (P.Dryton 2, SB I 4637, P.Grenf. I 12, P.Lond. III 607 descr., TM 248)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0751]/040-002104991

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Four fragments of varying size from a papyrus of good quality, further fragments of which are in Cairo (P.Gr. inv.no. 10349) and Heidelberg (P.Gr. inv.no. 1285). The fragments bear writing on one side along the fibres, the back being blank, but the Cairo fragment has four lines in a different hand on the back. The original text on the front consisted of one broad column of 33 lines. The BL fragments preserve the upper margin (25 mm), the lower (90 mm), and the right (10 mm), where a sheet-join is visible at c. 5-10 mm from the right edge. They are mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

-0150

End Date:

-0150

Date Range:

4 March 150 BC

Era:

BCE

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: fr. 1: 150 x 29 mm; fr. 2: 160 x 48; fr. 3: 67 x 23 mm; fr. 4: 157 x 132 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 380 x 190 mm.

Script: Small, proficient upright hand.

Custodial History:

Origin: Latopolis (Esna), Latopolite nome, Egypt.

Provenance: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 605-650 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 9 November 1895.

Former External References:

P.Dryton 2
P.Grenf. I 12
P.Lond. III 607 descr.
SB I 4637
SB XVIII 13330

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), pp. 521.

B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian erotic fragment and other Greek papyri chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 29-32, no. 12.

Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xix, no. 607 descr.

A. Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire des Lagides 4 (Paris: E. Leroux 1907), p. 112.

G. A. Gerhard, Ein gräko-ägyptischer Erbstreit aus dem zweiten Jahrhundert von Chr. (Heidelberg: Winter 1911).

Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner 1915), pp. pp. 398-399, no. 4637.

H. Kreller, Erbrechtliche Untersuchungen auf Grund der graeco-aegyptischen Papyrusurkunden (Leipzig-Berlin: B. G. Teubner 1919), pp. 176-178, 348-349, and passim.

J. K. Winnicki, ‘Ein ptolemaischer Offizier in Thebais’, Eos 60 (1972), pp. 343-353 (p. 344).

N. Lewis, ‘Dryton’s Wives: Two or Three?’, Chronique d'Égypte 57 (1982), pp. 317-321 (pp. 319-320).

P. W. Pestman, ‘Agoranomoi et actes agoranomiques’, in P. W. Pestman (ed.), Textes et études de papyrologie grecque, démotique et copte (Pap. Lugd. Bat. XXIII) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1985), p. 33.

W. Clarysse, ‘Le mariage et le testament de Dryton en 150 avant J.-C.’, Chronique d'Égypte 61 (1986), pp. 99-103.

S. B. Pomeroy, Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra (Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1990), pp. 105, 109-110.

Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XVIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1993), p. 172, no. 13330.

N. Lewis, ‘Drytoniana’, Scripta Classica Israelica 12 (1993), pp. 108-113 (p. 110).

W. Clarysse, ‘Ptolemaic Wills’, in M. J. Geller, H. Maehler et al. (eds.), Legal documents of the Hellenistic world : papers from a seminar arranged by the Institute of Classical Studies, the Institute of Jewish Studies and the Warburg Institute, University of London, February to May 1986 (London: Warburg Institute, University of London 1995), pp. 88-105.

B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 209).

K. Vandorpe, The bilingual family archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia and their daughter Senmouthis (P. Dryton) (Brussel: Het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2002), pp. 32-34, 59-68, no. 2.

K. Vandorpe, ‘A Greek Register from Pathyris' Notarial Office. Loans and Sales from the Pathyrite and Latopolite Nomes’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 150 (2004), pp. 161-186 (p. 169).

B. Legras, ‘Les testaments grecs dans le droit hellénistique: la question des héritières et des testatrices’, in E. Cantarella (ed.), Symposion 2005 : Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Salerno, 14.-18. September 2005) = Comunicazioni sul diritto greco ed ellenistico (Salerno, 14-18 settembre 2005) (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2007), pp. 293-306 (p. 305).

M. Nowak, ‘Dryton’s Wills Reconsidered’, Revue Internationale des droits de l’Antiquité 59 (2012) pp. 241-251 (pp. 249-250 and passim).

J. G. Keenan, J. G. Manning, U. Yiftach-Firanko (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 207-209, no. 4.5.3.

M. Nowak, Wills in the Roman Empire. A Documentary Approach. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement 23 (2015), pp. 259-261.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Apollonia, wife of Dryton, daughter of Ptolemaeus; alias Senmonthis, 150-100 BC
Dryton, cavalry-man; son of Pamphilus, 192-126 BC
Esthladas, son of Dryton and Sarapias, 150-100 BC

Places:

Latopolis (Esna), Latopolite nome, Egypt
Pathyris, Egypt

Related Material:

Fragments of the same papyrus are in Cairo and Heidelberg (P.Gr. inv.no. 10349 and P.Gr. inv.no. 1285 respectively).

The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Dryton, Apollonia and Descendants (TM Arch ID 74). Other wills of Dryton ar P.Dryton 1, P.Dryton 3 and P.Dryton 4.