Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

January 8

January 8 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 44. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 44

    Life on This Day

    Oxyrhynchus, Roman Egypt Law & Civic Life High

    A Mother Files an Ancient Change-of-Address Request

    On January 8, AD 44, a mother formally reported that her son no longer lived in his registered quarter and asked that his registration be transferred. The papyrus preserves an unusually familiar piece of urban bureaucracy.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Oxy. II 251

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
    • The Oxyrhynchus Papyri II

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