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Last Updated on 11 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1450: koinon ton ekdocheon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοινὸν τῶν ἐκδοχέων (P.Oxy. LIV 3772, ll. 3-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon ton ekdocheon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 338 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:ekdocheis
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LIV 3772, l. 3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3772 (26 Nov. AD 338)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3772
TM 17444
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script price declaration in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) 6.5 x 10.5cm; part of a separate roll that contained P.Oxy. I 85 cols v-vi according to editor.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership likely a meniarches; but not recorded here or lost
iv. Officials Perhaps the Aurelius mentioned here, l.6, although it appears that the full name of the individual making the declaration was not filled in as a space was left blank.

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).