Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
January 4
January 4 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated 131 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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131 BC
Life on This Day
A Woman Lends Her Sister Thirty-Five Artabas of Wheat
On January 4, 131 BC, Apollonia lent thirty-five artabas of wheat to her sister Herais and Herais’s husband. The Greek contract specified repayment obligations and a penalty if the grain was not returned.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Dryton 16
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
- Modern editions of the Dryton archive
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