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Last Updated on 08 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1428: koino[n ton] othoniopolon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοινὸ̣[ν τῶν] ὀθονιοπωλῶν (P.Oxy. LIV 3776 ll. 3-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koino[n ton] othoniopolon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 343 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:othoniopolai
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν koinon
Note koinon: P.Oxy. LIV 3776 l. 3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. LIV 3776 (24 Jul. AD 343)
Online Resources P.Oxy. LIV 3776
TM 15293
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Price declaration in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) 14x26.8cm; preserves parts of 3 declarations

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials Perhaps Attion, line 6, through whom the declaration was submitted.

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).