Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

May 6

May 6 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 336. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 336

    Life on This Day

    Oxyrhynchus, Roman Egypt Law & Civic Life High

    Public Doctors Record an Injury Examination

    On May 6, AD 336, public physicians at Oxyrhynchus produced an official report documenting an injury examination.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Oxy. LXVI 4528

    Modern scholarship

    • Oxford Oxyrhynchus Papyri digital record

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