Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
June 18
June 18 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning 207 BC to AD 295. Together, the entries below connect this calendar date with different moments in the ancient Greek world through historical and documentary evidence.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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207 BC
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An Administrative Letter Corrects Forty Artabas of Wheat
On June 18, 207 BC, a Demotic administrative letter from Elephantine dealt with the mistaken booking of 40 artabas of wheat from a syntaxis payment.
Sources
Primary evidence
- Pap. Berlin P. 13569
Modern scholarship
- Texts and Scripts from Elephantine catalogue
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AD 295
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A Sale Contract Records an Enslaved Mauretanian Woman
On June 18, AD 295, a Greek sale document from Oxyrhynchus recorded the conveyance of an enslaved woman called Lesbula, surnamed Maura, described as Mauretanian by birth and imported by sea.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Oxy. LXXXVI 5569
Modern scholarship
- Oxford Papyrology, Oxyrhynchus Papyri project
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