p.dryton.1.47
[…]…[…] […]τῆς διαγραφ[…] […]ἄνευ τῆς Δρύτωνος γνώμης ἀλλὰ κυριεύ[…] […]τῶν οἰκετικῶν σωμάτων ἀνδρείων[…] […]οι ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν Δρύτωνι ἢ τοῖς[…] […]τὰ[…]… ἄκυρα ἔστω καὶ προσαποτεισάτω[…] […]καὶ μηθὲν δʼ ἧττον κυρία ἔστω ἡ δὲ ὁμολογία[…]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 365
Fragment of an agreement of Dryton concerning household slaves TM 365unbekanntII v.Chr.
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A small fragment of a Greek agreement involving Dryton, apparently concerning ownership of household slaves. It preserves clauses forbidding action without Dryton's consent and penalty clauses declaring contrary acts invalid while the agreement remains valid. It dates to the 2nd century BC.
In English machine translation
[…] […]
[…] of the payment order (?) […]
[…] without the consent of Dryton, but […] shall have ownership […]
[…] of the household slaves, male […]
[…] on their behalf to Dryton or to the […]
[…] shall be invalid, and he shall pay in addition […]
[…] and nonetheless the agreement shall be valid […]
Dryton was a cavalry officer of Ptolemaic Pathyris whose family archive survives; the fragment may belong to his will or a related agreement. The word diagraphē can mean a bank payment order or a regulation.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Greek fragment of an agreement made by Dryton). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.