Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
February 8
February 8 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 274. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
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AD 274
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An Oxyrhynchite Official’s Minutes Are Preserved
A papyrus from Oxyrhynchus preserves an extract from official proceedings dated February 8, AD 274. It records the activity of Aurelius Agathos Daimon Potamon, exegetes of the Oxyrhynchites and the Small Oasis.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Mert. I 26
Modern scholarship
- Modern papyrological scholarship identifying P.Mert. I 26 as Oxyrhynchus, February 8, AD 274
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