Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

November 3

November 3 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated 123 BC. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. 123 BC

    Life on This Day

    Pathyris, Upper Egypt, Ptolemaic kingdom Economy & Trade High

    A Couple Buy a Quarter-Arura of Land

    On November 3, 123 BC, Patous son of Phagonis sold a quarter-arura of land at Pathyris for 4,000 bronze drachmas. The buyers were Panebchounis son of Totoes and his wife Kobahetesis, also called Maithotis.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • Papyrus 879; P.Lond. III 879 = TM 84

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue

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