Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
January 1
January 1 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated 248 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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248 BC
Life on This Day
A Contract Is Registered on the First Day of the Year
On January 1, 248 BC, a Greek documentary record preserved at Hibeh registered a fragmentary private contract. The surviving docket shows how transactions could be formally recorded within the Ptolemaic administrative system.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Hib. II 264
Modern scholarship
- Papyri.info and British Library papyrological cataloguing
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