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Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1393: to koinon ton halopolon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) τὸ κοινὸν τῶν ἁλοπωλῶν (P.Oxy. LIV 3750 l. 6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) to koinon ton halopolon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 312 - 319 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:halopolai
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LIV 3750 l. 6; P.Oxy. LIV 3734 l. 6

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3734 (25 May AD 312)
P.Oxy. LIV 3750 (26 Mar AD 319)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3734 = TM 15238
P.Oxy. LIV 3750 = TM 15259
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Price declaration in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) 3734: papyrus roll, 31.5 x 25.5 cm; contains P.Oxy. LIV 3732, 3733, 3734, 3735

3750: part of a roll measuring 55.5 x 24 cm that contains 7 price declarations (P.Oxy. LIV 3747-3753, AD 319); according to the editor they may have been written by same person but the roll is not a tomos synkollesimos; on the verso is a report of proceedings before the logistes (P.Oxy. LIV 3759, AD 325).

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership 3734: μηνιάρχης meniarches (l. 7), Aurelius Ptolemaios son of Loukios.

3750: the title is not included in this text; however, the person who submitted the price declaration from AD 312 (P.Oxy. 3734) is identified as a meniarches; most likely it is Aurelius Paesis son of Saprion, ll. 7-8 and l. 16.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

vi. Proper names and physical features 3734: Aurelius Ptolemaios son of Loukios.

3750: Aurelius Paesis son of Saprion

XI. INTERACTION

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

XII. NOTES

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: 230-232

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 may be something else entirely). The space of seven years between 3734 and 3750 does not rule out the possibility that we are dealing with the same group, and more than likely was.