Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
September 23
September 23 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 215. 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 215
Life on This Day
Two Men Borrow Six Artabas of Vegetable Seed
On September 23, AD 215, two men acknowledged receiving six artabas of vegetable seed from village elders and local notables at Soknopaiou Nesos. They undertook to repay the loan eight months later. The Greek document shows how agricultural supplies could move through formal local credit arrangements.
Sources
Primary evidence
- British Library papyrus record for the seed loan
Modern scholarship
- British Library catalogue record
- Nikolaos Gonis, scholarly edition and interpretation of the document
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