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

  1. AD 170

    Life on This Day

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    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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