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Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1395: to koinon ton elaiourgon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) τὸ κοινὸν τ[ῶ]ν [ἐλαι]ουρ̣γ̣ῶ̣ν (P.Oxy. LIV 3738 ll. 5-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) to koinon ton elaiourgon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 312 - 326 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

i. Name in other forms P.Oxy. LIV 3760, ll. 3-4: [π]α̣ρ̣ὰ̣ τ̣[ο]ῦ̣ κ̣[οινο]ῦ τῶν ἐλαιου̣ρ̣γῶν [p]ara t[o]u k[oino]u ton elaiourgon
ii. Name elements
Professional:elaiourgoi
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LIV 3738 l. 5; P.Oxy. LIV 3760 l. 3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3738 (27 Sep AD 312)
P.Oxy. LIV 3760 (326 AD)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3738 = TM 15242
P.Oxy. LIV 3760 = TM 15269
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Price declaration in Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) 3738: papyrus document containing four price declarations (P.Oxy. LIV 3737-3740); written on other side is P.Oxy. LIV 3758, a report of proceedings before a logistes, dating to 325

3760: part of a roll measuring 33x24.5 cm that contains parts of five declarations, of which four are published as P.Oxy. LIV 3760-3763; editor claims first one is too fragmentary and the association of 3763 is unclear. The text is not a tomos synkollesimos.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership 3738: the title of the official submitting the declaration, if it had been mentioned and if he was an officer, at lines 7-8 is lost or had not been recorded.

3760: the title of the official submitting the declaration, if it had been mentioned and if he was an officer, does not seem to be recorded at lines 5-6 or 14. In fact, his name is uncertain besides Aurelius....son of....

IX. MEMBERSHIP

vi. Proper names and physical features 3738: Aurelius Pettiris

3760: Aurelius ̣ ̣ ̣ti ̣ ̣as

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).