Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

January 30

January 30 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 28. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 28

    Life on This Day

    Oxyrhynchus region, Roman Egypt Economy & Trade High

    A Household Files a Livestock Return

    On January 30, AD 28, a Greek livestock return recorded five sheep and goats. The document offers a small but precise glimpse of how animal ownership could be registered for administrative purposes.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Oxy. II 352

    Modern scholarship

    • Papyri.info and APIS cataloguing
    • The Oxyrhynchus Papyri II

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