 P.Oxy
Welcome
Introduction
The Site
Excavations and Finds
Daily Life
After Grenfell & Hunt
A Millenium of Documents
Scribes and Scholars
Material Culture
Email
Copyright
P.Oxy. Links page |
Oxyrhynchus:
A City and its Texts, Virtual Exhibition: Navigation
Official daybook: September-October, AD 313(?)
This item records the daily activities of an unidentified official over a period
of more than a month. Apart from the frequency with which
the level of activity was ouden, ‘nothing’, most interest
attaches to the entry every seven days of the word Dios = dies
Iovis = Thursday, when the official also did nothing. Contrast the tall report
of legal proceedings, from just over a decade later, by which time officials
took Sundays off; at so early a
date, though, that might indicate no more than a readiness to conform to new
patterns, not a change of personal beliefs.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol.LIV no.3741 |
