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Last Updated on 08 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1415: koinon ton eriopolon (wool merchants)

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοιὸν τῶν ἐριοπωλῶν (P.Oxy. LIV 3751 l. 6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon ton eriopolon (wool merchants)

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 319 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:eriopolai 'wool merchants'
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LIV 3751 l. 6

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3751 (26 Mar AD 319?)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3751
TM 15260
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script price declaration in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) part of a roll measuring 55.5 x 24 cm that contains 7 price declarations (P.Oxy. LIV 3747-3753, AD 319); according to 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 In this text, it is clear that the title of the person making the declaration, if he had a title or position, was not recorded at lines 7-8 and 19.
iv. Officials perhaps Aurelius Pecyllus son of Stephanos through whom the declaration was made, lines 7-8 and 19

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).