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Last Updated on 08 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1425: koinon ton kerameon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοινοῦ τῶν κεραμέων
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon ton kerameon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 329 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
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iii. Descriptive terms koinon

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3766 col IV (27 Oct. AD 327)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3766
TM 15278
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 document that measures 41 x 27cm that contains declarations from four associations; the document is not a tomos synkollesimos; P.Oxy. LIV 3766 republishes P.Oxy. XXXI 2570 col ii-iii

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership μηνιάρχης meniarches (l. 61-2): Aurelius Demetrius son of Melas

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).