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Last Updated on 11 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1449: koinon ton garopolon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοινὸν τῶν γαροπωλῶν (P.Oxy. LIV 3749, ll. 6-7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon ton garopolon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 319 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:garopolai 'garum/ fish-sauce merchants'
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LIV 3749, l. 6

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3749 (26 Mar. AD 319)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3749
TM 15258
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 Likely a meniarches as in other declarations. However, 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 17

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: 230-32.

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 may be something else entirely).