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

  1. AD 147

    Life on This Day

    Talao, Oxyrhynchite nome, Roman Egypt Society & Daily Life High

    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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