Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

February 13

February 13 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 377. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 377

    Life on This Day

    Karanis, Roman Egypt Economy & Trade High

    A Farmer Takes an Advance for the Next Wheat Harvest

    On February 13, AD 377, Aurelius Aunes son of Kastor acknowledged an advance payment for nine artabas of clean wheat from Aurelius Melas. The wheat was to be delivered at harvest four months later and another person wrote for Aunes because he was illiterate.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Mich. inv. 3036 recto

    Modern scholarship

    • University of Michigan APIS

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