Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
November 21
November 21 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 190. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
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AD 190
Life on This Day
A Burglary Complaint Reports Ten Artabas of Barley Stolen
On November 21, AD 190, a Greek complaint reported that thieves had broken through a doorway that had been blocked with bricks and stolen ten artabas of barley. The petition turns a routine legal filing into a precise snapshot of household security and property crime.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Oxy. I 69
Modern scholarship
- Grenfell and Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri I
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