Apollonia Senmothis
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Apollonia Senmothis (in some sources also named Senmonthis) (circa 170 BC – floruit 126 BC), was a Greek-Egyptian businesswoman.[1]
She was the daughter of the cavalry officer Ptolemaios Pamenos, and married the cavalry officer Dryton
Apollonia Senmothis became a successful businesswoman with an important position in business life.[5][6] She invested in the wheat, barley and spelt trade and participated in banking. There was a noted difference in business documents and contracts she made with Egyptians, and those she signed at Greek notaries: as an Egyptian woman, she was equal to a man and signed her own documents without the interference of her husband, but as a Greek woman, she was nominally under the guardianship of her husband and her contracts was witnessed by her husband, even if this appears to have been a mere formality.
Apollonia Senmothis has left an archive of her business transactions and documents from 145 to 126 BC in the
See also
- Horos son of Nechoutes
- Ptolemaios son of Glaucias
References
- ISSN 1687-1863.
- JSTOR 24519016.
- ISBN 978-90-04-18959-1, retrieved 2024-01-16
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- JSTOR 4349943.
- ISBN 978-90-04-52550-4, retrieved 2024-01-16
- S2CID 150811489.
- Katelijn Vandorpe, A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt
- [1]
- Vandorpe, Katelijn, Peeters; Leuven: Apollonia, a businesswoman in a multicultural society (Pathyris, 2nd-1st centuries B.C.), Le rôle et le statut de la femme en Égypte hellénistique, romaine et byzantine / Ed. par Henri Melaerts et Leon Mooren.; 2002; pp. 325 - 336
- [2]
- Sharon L. James, Sheila Dillon, A Companion to Women in the Ancient World