May 17th, 339 CE—the proceedings of a trial are recorded #OnThisDay #OTD; the sisters Herais & Taesis fled their farmlands due to overdue taxes, so their lands were seized and handed over for public cultivation…but when they returned, they were handed back extra land!

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/sb;16;12692

May 16th, 243 BCE—Eukles drafts a letter reprimanding the village scribe Anosis #OTD #OnThisDay, saying that Anosis made a mistake in the pay records for the official pottery accounts and that Eukles plans to take him to court to make him pay the difference.

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.col;4;88

May 14th, 29 CE—#OTD #OnThisDay Herieus, daughter of Laousis and Tapetesouchus, sells Hisarous, daughter of Onnophris, the two out of five parts of a two-storied house in Soknopaiu Nesos belonging to her, in this bilingual Demotic/Greek contract

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.ryl;2;160

May 13th, 110 CE—#OnThisDay #OTD Hermias sells his "red cow with crooked horns" (βοῦν πυρόχρωμον σκα[μβὴν τὰ] κέρατ(α)) for 120 silver drachmae, saying that if she does not please the buyer, he'll buy the cow back for 3.5x the price.

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.bad;2;19A

May 12th, 31 CE—Hermon writes to the centurion Quintus Gaius Passer #OTD #OnThisDay, complaining that an armed group of fishermen poached a silver talent's worth of fish out of his cistern, and when confronted tried to attack him.

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;19;2234

May 11th, 218 BCE—#OnThisDay #OTD the wine dealers Sopatros, Dionysios, and Ptolemaios lodge a complaint against the wine merchant Petenenteris, who has delivered to them an incomplete order for wine

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.enteux;;34

May 10th, 329 CE—a list of people nominated to the town council is submitted #OnThisDay #OTD

In charge of wheat:
- Paysiris
- Clarus
In charge of meat:
- Papnuthis
- Hatres
In charge of chaff:
- Hatres
- Paysas
In charge of tunics & cloaks:
- Pahelenes
- Hatres

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;51;3621

May 9th, 137 BCE—#OnThisDay #OTD Phanesis writes to Pesouris regarding a matter in which some police officers are accused of robbing a house of…a pickled goose

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/sb;28;17205