Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
January 15
January 15 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 314. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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AD 314
Life on This Day
A Woman Borrows Four and a Half Artabas of Vegetables
On January 15, AD 314, Aurelia Tamounis acknowledged borrowing four and a half artabas of vegetables from Aurelia Isidora. The Greek document preserves formal credit involving food rather than coin.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Lond. III 975
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
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