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Last Updated on 11 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1451: koinon ton argyrokopon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοινὸν τῶν [ἀργ]υροκόπων (P.Oxy. LI 3624 ll. 3-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon ton argyrokopon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 359 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:argyrokopoi
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LI 3624 l. 3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LI 3624 (25 Jan. AD 359)
P.Oxy. LIV 3768, col ii (AD 332-336)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LI 3624 = TM 15357
P.Oxy. LIV 3768, col. II = TM 15283
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script price declaration in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) 19x21cm, contains 3 declarations (P.Oxy. LI 3624-3626: silversmiths, bakers, and Tarsian weavers and were part of a roll that was damaged on all sides.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership Likely a meniarches; but does not appear to be recorded here; there is no indication of the title in association with Aurelius Dioskorus, through whom the declaration was made, where it would be expected to be included. Also does not seem to have been included in P.Oxy. LIV 3768, col ii (AD 332-336), although it may have been lost.
iv. Officials Perhaps Aurelius Dioskorus through whom the declaration was made, lines 6 and 22.

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).