Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
November 11
November 11 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 170. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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AD 170
Life on This Day
A Priest Reports a Relative’s Death
On November 11, AD 170, the priest Tesenouphis formally notified the village scribe Pasion of the death of his relative Harpagathes. The dead man was also a priest and the surviving document preserves the administrative step of recording a death.
Sources
Primary evidence
- Papyrus 338; P.Lond. II 338 = TM 11718
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
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