The Dryton and Apollonia archive consists of fifty-three papyri and eight ostraka written in both Koine Greek and Demotic Egyptian from 174 to 94 BCE.
[1] The archive documents include wills, financial transactions, and divorces of a household living in the cities of Ptolemais and Pathyris in southern Egypt during the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Currently these documents are scattered amongst museum collections in the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Egypt.
There he married for a second time on 4 March 150 BCE, to Apollonia, also known by the Egyptian name of Senmonthis, who most likely was a teen, to his almost fifty years of age.
The papyri which form the surviving archive were inherited by Dryton and Apollonia Senmonthis' eldest daughter, Apollonia/Senmouthis and her husband Caeës.
[4] Another focus for those who study this archive is on the relationships between mother and the five daughters as a way to glimpse gender roles of both Greek and Egyptian families.
In Dryton's last will in 126 BCE he states that: In addition to maintaining possession of land, Apollonia was also involved in lending money, which is seen in a number of documents that record her financial transactions.