Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
January 10
January 10 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 535. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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AD 535
Life on This Day
A Village Administrator Pays Taxes Through a Banker
On January 10, AD 535, a Greek tax receipt recorded money paid by Pamouthius, administrator of the hamlet of Leon, through the banker Philoxenus. The receipt shows private banking operating inside late antique fiscal administration.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Oxy. I 143; Papyrus 770
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
- The Oxyrhynchus Papyri I
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