Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
February 2
February 2 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 23. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
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AD 23
Life on This Day
A Cattle Transfer Is Reported to an Oxyrhynchite Official
On February 2, AD 23, Cerinthus, a servant of Antonia daughter of Drusus, wrote to the strategos Chaereas before passing through his jurisdiction with cattle. The surviving document combines a Greek petition with Cerinthus’s Latin subscription.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Oxy. II 244 = British Library Papyrus 791, TM 20513
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
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