Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
September 16
September 16 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning AD 44 to AD 210. Together, the entries below connect this calendar date with different moments in the ancient Greek world through historical and documentary evidence.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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AD 44
Life on This Day
A Six-Aroura Plot Is Leased at Theadelphia for Four Years
On September 16, AD 44, Herakleia daughter of Chares leased a six-aroura plot near Theadelphia to Aunes son of Harthotes for four years. The Greek contract set annual rent in wheat and required an additional food payment. It preserves the working details of land tenancy, agricultural obligations and written contracting in Roman Egypt.
Sources
Primary evidence
- SB XIV 11279 = TM/HGV 14430
Modern scholarship
- Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens, HGV 14430
- Modern scholarship on Roman Egyptian land leases
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AD 210
Life on This Day
A Tax Receipt Records a Levy on a Sacrificial Calf
On September 16, AD 210, a Greek tax receipt from Polydeukeia in the Arsinoite nome recorded a levy connected with one sacrificial calf. The papyrus belongs to the official archive of the village elders and preserves a small piece of the administrative machinery behind local taxation and regulated ritual activity in Roman Egypt.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Stras. V 469 bis
Modern scholarship
- Papyri.info
- Specialist papyrological lexicography on the levy associated with sacrificial calves
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