Patron’s decendants

Name:	Patron’s decendants
Variants:	Laches; Descendants of Laches
Place:	00c - Tebtynis (Umm el-Baragat)
Century:	AD02
Begin:	AD 108
End:	AD 176
Language/script:	Greek
Material:	papyrus
Texts:	97
↳ certain:	87
↳ uncertain:	10
↳ erroneous:
Type:	private family archive (3 generations)
Protagonist:	The descendants of Patron clearly belonged to the wealthiest and most influential classes of the Arsinoites nomos. They owned about 500 arourai in at least ten villages in the neighbourhood of Tebtynis. The family members held several prestigious liturgical offices (gymnasiarches, exegetes, kosmetes).
Description:	found in the “cantina dei papiri”; 35 accounts, 22 leases and related documents, 17 letters, 14 miscellaneous texts. Two-thirds of the archive consists of texts of interest to the phrontistai of the descendants of Patron.
Studies:	Bagnall, The archive of Laches. Prosperous farmers of the Fayum in the second century unpubl. doctoral dissertation, Duke University, 1974 (not taking in account P. Mil. Vogl. 6); Bagnall, Some prosopographical observations on the Laches archive, in BASP 10, 1973, p. 65-70; Kehoe, Management and investment on estates in Roman Egypt during the early empire, 1992, p. 74-92 (on the management of the estate); Clarysse / Gallazzi, AncSoc 24 (1993), p. 63-68 (on the name of the archive)
Lists:	Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 254 no. 38; Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz, 1973, p. 63-64 no. 1.14
Work:
Collections:	Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library Berkeley, Bancroft Library Cairo, Egyptian Museum Cairo, IFAO Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Florence, Istituto Papirologico 'G. Vitelli' Geneva, Bibliothèque Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek Milan, Università Statale Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale
Note:	P. Mil. Vogl. 2 54 & 68 & P. Mil. Vogl. 3 134-135 & 144 & P. Mil. Vogl. 6 274 belong either to the archive of Pakebkis’ descendants (64) or to this archive.