Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
January 7
January 7 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated 246 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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246 BC
Life on This Day
Officials Record Land, People and Payments
On January 7, 246 BC, a Greek administrative document recorded people, land and monetary matters within the Ptolemaic bureaucracy. Its surviving details show the routine accounting work behind royal administration.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Hib. I 53
Modern scholarship
- Papyri.info
- Modern edition of the Hibeh papyri
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