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Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1423: [koinon to]n ichthuopol[o]n

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [κοινὸν τῶ]ν ἰχθυο̣π̣ω̣λ̣[ῶ]ν̣ (P.Oxy. LIV 3766 col. II ll. 5-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) [koinon to]n ichthuopol[o]n

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 329 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:ichthuopolai
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon (?)
Note koinon (supplied in lacuna): P.Oxy. LIV 3766 col. II l. 5

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3766 col. II (27 Oct. AD 329)
PSI III 202, col. II (AD 338)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3766 col. II = TM 15276
PSI III 202 = TM 20030
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script price declarations in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Papyrus. Part of a document that measures 41 x 27cm that contains declarations from four associations; the document is not a tomos synkollesiomos; P.Oxy. LIV 3766 republishes P.Oxy. XXXI 2570 col ii-iii

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership likely a μηνιάρχης meniarches based on the reading of the title used to describe Aurelius ... son of Pamunis who has submitted the declaration P.Oxy. LIV 3766 col. II l. 19: ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ε̣ι̣αρχης ...eiarches.
iv. Officials Aurelius ... son of Pamunis, P.Oxy. LIV 3765 line 7-8; 19

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).