Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
December 6
December 6 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning 257 BC to AD 15. 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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257 BC
Life on This Day
Nikias and Six Donkey Drivers Receive Wages
On December 6, 257 BC, a Greek receipt records wages connected with Nikias and six donkey drivers. It preserves the mundane logistics of paid transport labor in the Ptolemaic economy.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Col. III 20
Modern scholarship
- Columbia Egyptian Inscriptions database
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AD 15
Life on This Day
A Banker Records a Payment for Date Palms
On December 6, AD 15, a Greek ostracon from Syene records Zmethis paying through the bank of Ammonios for date palms. A published chronological correction moved the document from the older December 5 dating to December 6.
Sources
Primary evidence
- SB V 7584; Ostr. Cairo EM JdE 59222
Modern scholarship
- Maria Anna Söllner, Bemerkungen zur Datierung verschiedener Papyri, ZPE 107 (1995), 83
- Texts & Scripts from Elephantine
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