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Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1389: koinon ton myropolon

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
ii. Nome Oxyrhynchites (U19)
iii. Site Oxyrhynchus

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοινόν τῶν μυροπωλῶν (P.Oxy. LIV 3733, l. 4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon ton myropolon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 310 - 329 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:myropolai
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LIV 3731, l. 3; P.Oxy. LIV 3733, l. 4; P.Oxy. LIV 3766 col. V l. 80

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3731 (AD 310/11)
P.Oxy. LIV 3733 (25 May AD 312)
P.Oxy. LIV 3766 col. V (27 Oct AD 327?)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3731= TM 15235
P.Oxy. LIV 3733= TM 15237
P.Oxy. LIV 3766 col. V= TM 15279
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script price declaration in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) 3731: papyrus; 8 x 14 cm; contents organized in two columns; back is blank but editor suggests that the papyrus may have been a tomos synkollesimos

3733: papyrus roll, 31.5 x 25.5 cm; contains P.Oxy. LIV 3732, 3733, 3734, 3735

3766: part of a document that measures 41 x 27cm that contains declarations from four associations; the document is not a tomos synkollesimos; P.Oxy. LIV 3766 republishes P.Oxy. XXXI 2570 col ii-iii

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials 3733: possibly Aurelius Isidorus son of Sarapion

3766: likely Aurelius Thonis son of Theon, col v line 81-82

IX. MEMBERSHIP

vi. Proper names and physical features 3731: ? Aurelius ... (?) and Diogenes (?) [l.4]

3733: Aurelius Isidoros, son of Sarapion

3766: Aurelius... (?) - Aurelius ... Thoonis, son of Theon (?) [col.5, l.80-81]

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction official interaction; association acting on behalf of the group representing them before the authorities

XII. NOTES

i. Comments No titles of the leaders of the koinon are recorded. However in 3731: likely μηνιάρχαι meniarchai although the titles and much of the names of the officials submitting the declaration are lost.

3733: unclear; possibly Aurelius Isidoros son of Sarapion (l.5; 32) who submits the declaration

3766: likely a μηνιάρχης meniarches although if the person through whom the declaration was submitted was an official his title is not recorded here
iii. Bibliography Bagnall, R. S. (2000) 'Governmental roles in the economy of late antiquity', in E. Lo Cascio and D. Rathbone (eds.) Production and Public Powers in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge: 86-91 (esp. 89-90)
Coles, R. Appendix II, P. Oxy. LIV: 230-32.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The associative terminology and the apparently necessary declaration suggests that this was an association; private here because, in spite of the nature of the declaration itself, there is nothing here to suggest that this group was other than voluntary (although state compulsion to report prices may be something else entirely).