Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
September 22
September 22 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated 197 BC. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
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197 BC
Life on This Day
A Tanner Reports a 2,600-Drachma Theft from His Home
On September 22, 197 BC, Petosiris, a tanner, petitioned the financial official Dorotheus after accusing Dionysius of entering his home and taking clothing, pillows, wool, cups, tools and other property valued at 2,600 drachmas. Petosiris asked that the accused be summoned. The Greek papyrus preserves a vivid case of alleged theft, household property and access to officials in Ptolemaic Egypt.
Sources
Primary evidence
- British Library Papyrus 569
Modern scholarship
- British Library catalogue record
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