Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
September 19
September 19 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 470. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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AD 470
Life on This Day
An Order Calls for Wheat for the Donkey Drivers of the Imperial Post
On September 19, AD 470, a Greek order from the dossier of the landowner Flavia Cyria called for wheat to be supplied to donkey drivers working for the cursus velox, the fast branch of the imperial postal service. The fragment preserves a practical glimpse of the food, animals and local obligations that kept long-distance imperial communication moving.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Lond. V 1798 = TM 19769
Modern scholarship
- British Library catalogue record
- Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis
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