Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
September 27
September 27 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 359. 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 359
Life on This Day
Philadelphe Receives a Receipt for Her Taxes
On September 27, AD 359, a Greek papyrus recorded tax revenues and preserved a receipt issued to Philadelphe daughter of Theon confirming payment of her taxes. The document gives us the name of an individual otherwise almost invisible in the machinery of late Roman taxation.
Sources
Primary evidence
- British Library Papyrus 2574
Modern scholarship
- British Library catalogue record
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