Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
December 15
December 15 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning 146 BC to AD 530. 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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146 BC
Life on This Day
A Share in a Funerary Profession Changes Hands
On December 15, 146 BC, a transaction in the Theban choachyte archive concerned rights in the funerary profession. The underlying act is Demotic within a bilingual Ptolemaic legal and fiscal environment, so it should not be described as a purely Greek contract.
Sources
Primary evidence
- Theban choachyte archive transaction dated December 15, 146 BC
Modern scholarship
- Trismegistos Archives dossier on the choachytes
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AD 530
Event That Shaped History
Justinian Orders the Compilation of the Digest
On December 15, AD 530, Justinian issued the constitution Deo auctore to Tribonian, ordering the great compilation of classical juristic writings that became the Digest.
Sources
Primary evidence
- Constitutio Deo auctore, Codex Justinianus 1.17.1
Modern scholarship
- Mommsen and Krueger text tradition
- University of Wyoming Annotated Justinian Code
- Durham scholarship on Justinianic legislation
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