Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

May 24

May 24 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 166. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 166

    Life on This Day

    Eastern Roman Empire Law & Civic Life High

    A Seven-Year-Old Enslaved Boy Is Sold

    On May 24, AD 166, Gaius Fabullius Macer bought a seven-year-old enslaved boy named Abbas or Eutyches from Quintus Julius Priscus in a sealed deed of sale.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Lond. I 229

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library papyrus catalogue

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