Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
October 4
October 4 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated 255 BC. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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255 BC
Life on This Day
Labourers Are Paid to Clear Brushwood Land
On October 4, 255 BC, labourers acknowledged payment from Zenon for clearing brushwood from a plot of land. The Greek contract required them to return the land clean within twenty-one days and was executed before six witnesses. Part of the original clay seal still survives.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Cair.Zen. II 59182 = TM 828; British Library Papyrus 2344
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
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