Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

March 4

March 4 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning 160 BCE to 212 CE. Together, the entries below connect this calendar date with different moments in the ancient Greek world through historical and documentary evidence.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. 160 BCE

    Life on This Day

    Memphis, Ptolemaic Egypt Economy & Trade High

    Three Payments Entered in a Ptolemaic Account

    An account preserves three money payments made on this day under Ptolemy VI Philometor and Cleopatra II.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Lond. I 25 / UPZ I 87

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue

    Public links

  2. 212 CE

    Life on This Day

    Oxyrhynchus, Roman Egypt Economy & Trade Reconstructed

    A Sale Contract Records an Enslaved Person

    A formal sale declaration documents the transfer of an enslaved person. The exact modern date is reconstructed from Caracalla’s titulature and official chronology.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Oxy. XXXVI 2777

    Modern scholarship

    • UCL-hosted specialist papyrological study

    Public links