Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
February 20
February 20 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 147. 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 147
Life on This Day
A Young Man Registers Himself and a Freedman in the Census
On February 20, AD 147, Dikaiogenes son of Philon and Senherakleia filed a census declaration. The twenty-two-year-old registered himself and Sarapion alias Eutyches, a nineteen-year-old freedman, in property belonging to Dikaiogenes’s parents.
Sources
Primary evidence
- SB XXII 15466 = British Library Papyrus 2194, TM 79046
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
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