Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

October 10

October 10 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 80. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 80

    Life on This Day

    Oxyrhynchus, Roman Egypt Law & Civic Life High

    Property Is Formally Registered

    On October 10, AD 80, a Greek property declaration was formally registered at Oxyrhynchus. The surviving papyrus is fragmentary, but enough remains to identify it as part of the documentary system used to record property rights. The entry is valuable precisely because it shows the routine bureaucracy behind ownership rather than a dramatic dispute.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Oxy. II 249; Yale Inv. 37

    Modern scholarship

    • The Oxyrhynchus Papyri II
    • Oxford Oxyrhynchus Papyri location list
    • Modern scholarship on Egyptian property returns

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