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Last Updated on 11 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1452: koinon ton artokopon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοινὸν τῶν ἀρτοκόπων (P.Oxy. LI 3625, ll. 3-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon ton artokopon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 359 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:artokopoi
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LI 3625, l. 3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LI 3625 (25 Jan. AD 359)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LI 3625
TM 15358
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 Leontinus (line 6), through whom the declaration was made, where it would be expected to be included.
iv. Officials Perhaps the Leontinus through whom the declaration was made, line 6.

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).