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Papyrus 617
- Record Id:
- 040-002105001
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002cb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128843.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 617
- Title:
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Copy of the Third Will of Dryton (P.Dryton 4, P.Grenf. I 21, Chrest.Mitt. 302, P.Lond. III 617 descr., TM 258)
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of the will of Dryton made by his son Esthladas, whereby his possessions are to be divided between his son from his first marriage and his five daughters. Among the other things, Esthladas is to receive a horse, the weaponry, and a vineyard. Dovecots, open lots, slaves are to be divided between Esthladas and Dryton’s daughters. Dryton also makes provisions for his wife on condition that she remains in the house, and for one of his daughter’s dowry.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105001 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 617 : Copy of the Third Will of Dryton (P.Dryton 4, P.Grenf. I 21, Chrest.Mitt. 302, P.Lond. III 617 descr., TM 258) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0750]/040-002105001
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A papyrus of good quality, originally rolled from right to left, lacking part of its left portion and damaged along the vertical folds. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank; the text consists of one broad column of 22 lines. The upper margin measures 15 mm, the lower 60 mm, the right 35 mm and the left is not preserved. Three sheet-joins are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128843.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0126
- End Date:
- -0126
- Date Range:
- 29 June 126 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 235 x 360 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 290 x 435 mm.
Script: Small upright cursive hand, somewhat irregular, employing many abbreviations; hand of Esthladas.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite 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:
- C.Ptol.Sklav. 57
P.Dryton 4
P.Grenf. I 21
P.Lond. III 617 descr.
Sel.Pap. I 83 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), pp. 522-523.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian erotic fragment and other Greek papyri chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 44-48, no. 21.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xx, no. 617 descr.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire des Lagides 4 (Paris: E. Leroux 1907), p. 113-114.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 341-343, no. 302.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 238-243, no. 83.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 70.
J. Mélèze-Modrzejewski, ‘Dryton le crétois et sa famille ou les mariages mixtes dans l'Égypte hellénistique’, in H. van Effenterre (ed.), Aux Origines de l'Hellénisme. La Crète et la Grèce. Hommage à Henri van Effenterre, présenté par le Centre G. Glotz (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1984), pp. 353-377 (p. 375).
S. B. Pomeroy, Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra (Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1990), pp. 105-106, and passim.
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. 28.
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), pp. 100-101.
R. Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner 1990), no. 57.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 140.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 95.
J. Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), pp. 109-111, no. 86.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 195).
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. 79-88, no. 4.
B. Legras, ‘Les testaments grecs dans le droit hellénistique: la question des héritières et des testatrices’, 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 (pp. 305-306).
M. Nowak, ‘Dryton’s Wills Reconsidered’, Revue Internationale des droits de l’Antiquité 59 (2012) pp. 241-251 (pp. 249-250 and passim).
M. Nowak, Wills in the Roman Empire. A Documentary Approach. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement 23 (2015), pp. 263-266.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)