Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
July 13
July 13 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning 63 BC to AD 140. 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
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63 BC
Life on This Day
An Order Sends One Hundred Fifty Artabas of Wheat to Priests
On July 13, 63 BC, the strategos Dionysios transmitted an order for 150 artabas of wheat to be delivered to priests at Tilothis.
Sources
Primary evidence
- BGU VIII 1752
- P. 13964
Modern scholarship
- Berliner Papyrusdatenbank
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AD 140
Life on This Day
A Banker Pays the Final Two Hundred Drachmas for a Slave Purchase
On July 13, AD 140, a woman instructed a banker at Alexandria to pay the remaining 200 drachmas of a 1,000-drachma slave purchase after 800 drachmas had already been paid.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Col. VIII 219
- SB XII 10894
Modern scholarship
- Modern scholarship on Roman Egyptian banking and slave-sale documentation
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