Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

December 8

December 8 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 63. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 63

    Life on This Day

    Roman Egypt Law & Civic Life High

    A Tax Register Lists Families and Payments

    On December 8, AD 63, a Greek tax register listed male taxpayers with family identifications and the sums each paid. It turns an administrative roll into a snapshot of households under taxation.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Lond. II 181 = TM 11644; British Library Papyrus 181

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue

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