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Last Updated on 11 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1448: koinon ton orbiopolon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοινὸν τῶν ὀρβιο[πωλῶ]ν̣ (P.Oxy. LIV 3745, ll. 7-8)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon ton orbiopolon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 318 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:orbiopolai
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LIV 3745, l. 7

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3745 (AD 318)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3745
TM 15251
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script price declaration in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) 13 x 22cm; the prices and items declared and the subscription are lost; on verso are fragmentary proceedings held before a logistes, written transversa charta according to the editor.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership See VII.iv 'Officials'.
iv. Officials Aurelius ... son of Ammon through whom the declaration is made (l. 9-10): likely a meniarches (thus possibly the leader) as the editor assumes, but not explicitly stated here.

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).