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Last Updated on 08 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1417: koinon ton stippocheiriston

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοιν ὸν τῶν στιπποχ̣[ειρι]στῶν (P.Oxy. LIV 3753 ll. 6-7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon ton stippocheiriston

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 319 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:stippocheiristai 'tow-handlers'
iii. Descriptive terms κοιν όν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LIV 3753 l. 6

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3753 (26 Mar AD 319)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3753
TM 15262
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 μηνιάρχης meniarches; four in number, μηνιάρχαι meniarchai (l. 11): Aurelius Horion son of Eudaemon; Aurelius Hermias son of Horion; Aurelius Alexander son of Antonius; Aurelius Chaeremon son of ...mon (lines 8-11).

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). Additional documents from the Aurelius Leonides archive - seemingly a member and official of a group of tow merchants - gives further backing to this interpretation.