Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
December 2
December 2 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 130. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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AD 130
Life on This Day
An Overseer Reports on Ownerless Land
On December 2, AD 130, Ammonios, an overseer of ownerless land, sent a Greek monthly administrative report to Demetrios the nomarch of Naukratis. The record shows land administration functioning through written reporting.
Sources
Primary evidence
- OPES documentary record 151
Modern scholarship
- University of Oslo OPES papyrus database
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