Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

January 22

January 22 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 42. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 42

    Life on This Day

    Oxyrhynchus region, Roman Egypt Economy & Trade High

    A Stonecutter Pays His Occupational Tax

    On January 22, AD 42, a Greek receipt recorded payment of the tax imposed on stonecutters. The papyrus gives a direct glimpse of how skilled occupations could be identified and taxed by the Roman administration.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Oxy. LXXXVIII 5660

    Modern scholarship

    • The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXXVIII

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