Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
November 23
November 23 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 23. 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 23
Life on This Day
A Grain Payment Is Recorded for the Sitologi
On November 23, AD 23, a Greek document addressed to the sitologi of a local district recorded a payment of grain. The short administrative record preserves the workings of officials responsible for receiving and accounting for grain.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Oxy. II 287
Modern scholarship
- Grenfell and Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri II
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