Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
October 7
October 7 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 586. 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 586
Life on This Day
A Woman Sells Half of a Three-Storey House
On October 7, AD 586, Tapia sold Kyriakos half of a house for five solidi. The Greek contract describes roof terraces, a vestibule, gateway, stair, courtyard, oven and rooms on three floors. Few documents let us see the physical layout of an ordinary property this clearly while also preserving the legal act that transferred it.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Münch. I 11
Modern scholarship
- Elephantine database, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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