Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
January 19
January 19 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 449. 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 449
Life on This Day
A Woman Leases Two Dining Rooms
On January 19, AD 449, Aurelia Mikis leased two dining rooms to Aurelius Phoebammon. The Greek agreement provides a rare documentary glimpse of commercial or domestic space being rented in late antique Oxyrhynchus.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Oxy. VIII 1129
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
- The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII
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