Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

November 10

November 10 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 190. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 190

    Life on This Day

    Kerkesoucha Orous, Polemon meris, Arsinoite nome, Roman Egypt Society & Daily Life High

    Pisais Offers to Lease Farmland at Kerkesoucha

    On November 10, AD 190, Pisais submitted an offer to lease several arouras of land belonging to Valerius and Heraclia with their partners. The surviving Greek papyrus specifies that rent was to be paid on the threshing floor at Kerkesoucha Orous and preserves Pisais’s autograph subscription, identifying him as thirty-two years old.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • Papyrus 1943B; P.Fam.Tebt. 45 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 45 = TM 10754

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
    • B. A. van Groningen, A Family Archive from Tebtunis, no. 45

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