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Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1394: to koinon ton kemiopolon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) τὸ κοινὸν τῶν κεμιοπωλῶν (P.Oxy. LIV 3755 ll. 29-30)
ii. Full name (transliterated) to koinon ton kemiopolon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 312 - 320 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:kemiopolai
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LIV 3755 l. 29; P.Oxy. LIV 3737 l. 7; P.Oxy. LIV 3744, l. 7.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3737 (27 Sep AD 312)
P.Oxy. LIV 3744 (AD 318)
P.Oxy. LIV 3755 (27 Sep AD 320)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3737 = TM 15241
P.Oxy. LIV 3744 = TM 15250
P.Oxy. LIV 3755 = TM 15264
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Price declaration; Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) 3737: papyrus document containing four price declarations (P.Oxy. LIV 3737-3740); written on other side is P.Oxy. LIV 3758, a report of proceedings before a logistes, dating to 325

3744: 7.2 x 12cm; verso appears to be a report of proceedings perhaps before the logistes according to editor

3755: 8.5cm x 14.5 cm; roll that contains 3 declarations; of the three only that of the kemiopolai is preserved



VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership 3737: the title of the official submitting the declaration, if it had been mentioned, is lost. Given the similarities between this and other price declarations from Oxyrhynchus, however, it is likely that Aurelius Hierakas (l.9) was a meniarches.

3744: the title of the official submitting the declaration, if it had been mentioned and if he was an officer, at lines 9-11 does not seem to have been recorded or has been lost; the text breaks off at line 11 and lines 10 and 11 are highly fragmentary: Aurelius ̣ ̣ ̣ (ll.9-10).

3755: the title of the official submitting the declaration, if it had been mentioned and if he was an officer, at lines 9-11 does not seem to have been recorded or has been lost; the text breaks off at line 11 and lines 10 and 11 are highly fragmentary. Ll. 29-34 may bear more fruitful information, however: given the formulaic nature of these documents, and the copies therein, it seems entirely possible that Aurelius Seleukos, son of Herakleios was the meniarches.
iv. Officials

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).