Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
January 2
January 2 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated 88 BC. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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88 BC
Life on This Day
A Plot of Land Is Sold at Pathyris
On January 2, 88 BC, a Greek deed recorded the private sale of a plot of land at Pathyris. The document preserves an ordinary property transaction within the legal culture of late Ptolemaic Upper Egypt.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Lond. III 883
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
- Papyri.info
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