Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

November 22

November 22 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 580. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 580

    Life on This Day

    Roman Egypt, probably Herakleopolis Economy & Trade High

    A Receipt Records Gold Sent to Alexandria

    On November 22, AD 580, a Greek receipt recorded large sums of gold connected with money to be carried to Alexandria. The document includes payments measured in solidi and was later crossed out, indicating that the obligation had been fulfilled.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Oxy. I 144

    Modern scholarship

    • Grenfell and Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri I
    • Modern scholarship on late antique Egyptian fiscal transfers

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