Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
September 25
September 25 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated 105 BC. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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105 BC
Life on This Day
A Letter Refers to a Monthly Grain Allotment
On September 25, 105 BC, a fragmentary Greek letter sent from Ptolemais referred to the monthly quantity of grain assigned to its writers. Their names are lost, but the surviving text preserves a small glimpse of routine grain distribution in Ptolemaic Egypt.
Sources
Primary evidence
- British Library Papyrus 631
Modern scholarship
- British Library catalogue record
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