Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

January 16

January 16 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 362. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 362

    Life on This Day

    Oxyrhynchus, Roman Egypt Society & Daily Life High

    A Hydraulic-Organ Player Is Paid in Grain

    On January 16, AD 362, an order instructed that two artabas of grain be paid to Gorgonius, a player of the hydraulic organ. The payment gives a rare documentary glimpse of a professional musician inside the ancient economy.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Oxy. I 93

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
    • The Oxyrhynchus Papyri I

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