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Last Updated on 08 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1427: koin[o]n ton ar[g]urok[opon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοιν[ὸ]ν τῶν ἀ̣ρ̣[γ]υροκ̣[όπων (P.Oxy. LIV 3768 col. II, ll. 12-13)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koin[o]n ton ar[g]urok[opon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 332 - 336 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:argurokopoi
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LIV 3768 col. II, l. 12

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3768 col. II (AD 332-336)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3768
TM 15283
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script price declaration in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) 15 x 9.5cm, contains 3 declarations (goldsmiths, silversmiths, and a third unidentified)

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).