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Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1398: koinon ton huelourgon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοινὸν τῶν ὑελουργῶν (P.Oxy. LIV 3742 recto l. 3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon ton huelourgon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 317 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:huelourgoi = hualourgoi
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LIV 3742 recto l. 3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3742 recto (26 Nov AD 317)
Note ὑελουργοί huelourgoi (= ὑαλουργοί hualourgoi), glassworkers; mentioned in other price declarations P.Col.Youtie II 81 = P.Oxy. XLV 3265; see also PUG I 24
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i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Price declaration in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) 10.2 x 23.9 cm; a single price declaration that was perhaps originally part of a roll that was later reused; the verso contains the initial five lines of a report before a logistes dating to AD 325 written transversa charta.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership The title of the official submitting the declaration, if it had been mentioned and if he was an officer, at lines 5-6 does not seem to have been recorded.
iv. Officials Aurelius Arion, son of [....]

XI. INTERACTION

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

XII. NOTES

i. Comments declaration of glass by weight; likely raw materials
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).