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Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1397: koinon ton kapelon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοινόν τῶν καπήλω̣ν̣
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon ton kapelon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 312 - 326 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:
iii. Descriptive terms koinon

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3740 (27 Sep. AD 312)
P.Oxy. LIV 3762 (AD 326?)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3740 = TM 15244

P.Oxy. LIV 3762 = TM 15271
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Price declaration; Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) 3740: 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.

3762: 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 3740: μηνιάρχαι meniarchai, two in number apparently, l.10: Aurelius Theodorus, son of Sarapion, and Aurelius Diodorus, son of Dionysios (ll. 8-10; 19).

3762: likely meniarchai, two in number apparently, given the similarities between this and other documents; no title is included in 3762 for Aurelius Ammon (l.17) although ll. 6-8 where his name and title would appear are fragmentary and difficult to read.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

vi. Proper names and physical features 3740: Aurelius Theodorus, son of Sarapion, and Aurelius Diodorus, son of Dionysios (ll. 8-10; 19).

3762: Aurelius Ammon

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).