Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

January 14

January 14 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 331. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 331

    Life on This Day

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    A Farmer Leases Agricultural Land at Theadelphia

    On January 14, AD 331, a Greek land lease from the Sakaon archive recorded an agricultural tenancy at Theadelphia. The document preserves the contractual framework behind cultivation and rent in a late Roman village.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Sakaon 69

    Modern scholarship

    • Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis
    • Modern edition of the Sakaon archive

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