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The male members of the family are often attested as having a double name, like Hermophilos alias Phibis in the first generation under inspection here. He was a (demotic) scribe in the service of the temple of Pathyris (not a temple notary, but a scribe who, for example, countersigned payments and wrote receipts).¹¹⁴ His wife Sennesis was a γυνὴ τροφῖτις (s.ḥm.t snḫ, a woman of revenue/substance), a title that shows that this was an elite Egyptian family.¹¹⁵ One of their sons, Thrason alias Patous, continued his father's profession as a scribe of the temple.¹¹⁶

109 13 (129 BCE) was written in Krokodilon polis in Aniketos' name, though the signature has not survived.

110 The document also illustrates the complicated research history of a papyrus text, which, in the end, still remains fragmentary. The first edition was P. Grenf. 1 19. G. Messeri Savorelli found two pieces belonging to it, one already published and the other unpublished (ZPE 47 (1982) 275–280) and later Pestman found one more piece, which has now been published together with the other fragments by Vandorpe in P.Dryton 17.

111 There was a notary called Ptolemaios in the Krokodilon polis office in 141–138. It would be convenient if he could be identified as Aniketos' father, but the name Ptolemaios is too common.

112 PESTMAN,"L'Agoranomie"1978,206presents the family tree of Aniketos and data of the

documents. The sons of Kephalon are known from demotic documents O. Zürich Wångst. dem. 33 and P. Ryl. dem. 33. Kephalon is also attested in P. Ryl. dem. 18; P.L.Bat. 19 5 (as a tax farmer together with Paniskos, no patronymics); and BGU 3 997; 998 (as owner of a neighboring house, no

patronymics).

113 B^AGNALL 1997,17.However, the name is rare: in LGPN less than 15 attestations (Cyrene, Rhodes, names Kephalos and Kephalion, however, are quite common.

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115 P^ESTMAN, "La femme-snḫ" 1978, 210.

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South Italy, Thessaly, and also 4 Macedonians (all from papyrological evidence, see above 2.3). The VANDORPE (2011), 301.

VANDORPE (2011), 301.

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Asklepiades, another son of Phibis-Hermophilos and Sennesis, was a Greek notary, agoranomos, in Krokodilon polis 127–126 BCE. ¹¹⁷ Two sons of Asklepiades, Hermias and Ptolemaios, appear as witnesses in a will of Pachnubis (22), from the year 123. The name Asklepiades is not otherwise attested in the Pathyrite area and thus Pestman suggested that it was the agoranomos Asklepiades, who was the father of Hermias and Ptolemaios. Hermias was later a notary himself in the Pathyris office.

Asklepiades also had an Egyptian name, Patseous.¹¹⁸ Moreover, he seems to have worked as a demotic scribe later. He is titled as "scribe of the Thebaid and the southern territory" (sẖ n tš Nw.t t šd rsj).¹¹⁹

Areios, alias Pelaias the Younger, was the brother of the above-mentioned Asklepiades, i.e., also a son of Phibis-Hermophilos and Sennesis. He is attested in a demotic sale document as "scribe (sẖ) Areios, son of Hermophilos, alias Pelaias, son of Phibis and Sennesis" and in the Greek tax receipt for that sale as "Pelaias, son of Phibis."¹²⁰ Areios had several children and at least two of them also had double names. His son, Ammonios alias Pakoibis, became an agoranomos after him. His other son, Nechouthes alias Almaphis, is identified as an archive owner, whose small archive includes two demotic texts and possibly one Greek text.¹²¹

Ammonios was the son of the above-mentioned Areios. A description of Ammonios is preserved in the witness statement of a Greek will.

22 26-27 (123 BCE, Areios¹²²)

[ µµ] νιο ρείου έρ η[ ] τ ν µι( θοφόρων) π(πέων) (ἐτ ν) λ µέ ο [µελί]χρω κλα τὸ µακροπρ(ό ωπο ) [ε θύριν ο] λ µετ π

Ammonios son of Areios, Persian of the mercenary cavalry, about 30 years old, medium height, honey-coloured, curly-haired, long-faced, straight-nosed with a scar

We find out, then, that Ammonios was a mercenary cavalry soldier with the title him is in another witness statement from year 126.¹²³ He was said to be about 30

117 We have no documents from Asklepiades himself. Instead, he appears as agoranomos1 in three documents written in Pathyris by agoranomos2: 16 and 17 were certainly written under the name of Areios, and the third, 18A with the copy 18B, is possibly under his name as well.

118 His third son, Nechoutes alias Eunous (also written Eunomos), appears in a demotic document as

"the son of Patseous" (P. Ryl. dem. 17) and in a Greek document as "the son of Asklepiades" (BGU 3 1000), PESTMAN 1978, 207–208. In P. Ryl. dem. 17, Patseous is himself an acting party, with the title

119 P. Ryl. dem. 17 + P. Ryl.gr.2 249 (118 BCE).

120 P. Strasb. dem. 21 + SB 1 5115 (bank of Hermonthis, 145 BCE).

121 For the archive of Nechouthes, see VANDORPE &WAEBENS 2009, 142–143.

122 The document is under Areios' name, but the preserved papyrus is a copy, possibly written by

123 18A+18B (126 BCE), Ammonios is described in a similar way (a different variant πόκλα το is used instead of κλα τό and the scar is said to be in the middle of his forehead). His age is about 30 in that document as well.

on his forehead (transl. from B^AGNALL &D^EROW 2004, no. 149)

"Persian" (for which, see Chapter 2.3) in the year 123 BCE. A similar description of

"scribe" and further filiations (son of Phibis, his mother being Tsenesi, "a woman of revenue").

Ammonios himself (see above, 4.3 Copies).

medium height, honey-colored, curly-haired, long-faced, straight-nosed with a scar

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103 years old at the time in both texts, so he must have been born around 153–156 BCE.

He was roughly the age of 40 when he started as an official agoranomos. Pestman identified Ammonios as Pakoibis, son of Pelaias the Younger, who is attested as a witness in demotic documents in 118, 117, 116 and 97–88.¹²⁴ In other words, Ammonios was literate in both Greek and demotic.

Hermias was a son of Asklepiades alias Patseous (discussed above). Hermias was also described in the witness statement in the above-mentioned will.

22 24–25 (123 BCE, Areios)

ρµία κλ[ηπ]ι ου έρ η τ ν µι θοφ[ό]ρων π(πέων) (ἐτ ν) κε [ἐυµεγέθ]η µελίχρω κλ[α τ]ὸ µακροπρό ωπο ε θύ[ριν] ο λ(η)

εξ(ιὸν) τετρη(µένο )

Hermias son of Asklepiades, Persian of the mercenary cavalry, about 25 years old, of good height, honey-coloured, curly-haired, long-faced, straight-nosed with a scar and his right ear pierced (transl. fromBAGNALL &DEROW 2004, no. 149)

If Hermias was 25 years old in 123 BCE, he was born ca. 148 BCE. He was about five years younger than his cousin Ammonios, his predecessor as the agoranomos of Pathyris. They both shared a similar military background. Hermias probably had an Egyptian name like other members of his family, but it has not been identified.¹²⁵

This scribal-notarial family can be said to have a strong Egyptian background beneath its Hellenizing/Greco-Egyptian identity.

Outside the notarial family, we can still mention possible evidence for the Egyptian background of the agoranomos Paniskos. A Paniskos alias Peteminis is the testator in a will from Itos (106, date not preserved). That Paniskos was not necessarily the same person as the agoranomos of Krokodilon polis, but it makes it clear that the name Paniskos was used by a person who also bore an Egyptian name. In other words, it was part of the stock of Hellenized names. Therefore, Paniskos, the agoranomos, could very well also have had a double name (if he was not Paniskos alias Peteminis).

The name Paniskos is rare according to LGPN.¹²⁶ However, a banker called Paniskos also appears in the documents, sometimes even in the same documents that have been written by the notary Paniskos (see example text 107 in Appendix C).

124 See P.L.Bat. 19 4 n. 19; the demotic documents listed there are P.L.Bat. 19 5, verso 5; P. Adler dem.

14 and 21; P. Ryl. Dem. 18, 20 and 30, P.Strasb. Dem. 8, Lüddeckens, Eheverträge 48.

125 P^ESTMAN,"L'Agoranomie"' 1978, 208, suggested that it could be Pelaias, but he has no references there.

126 One Hellenistic example is from Cyrene, two examples are Macedonians (one Hellenistic and one Roman) from papyrological material.

Hermias son of Asklepiades, Persian of the mercenary cavalry, about 25 years old, of good height, honey-colored, curly-haired, long-faced, straight-nosed with a scar and

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