Zenon son of Agreophon
| Name: | Zenon son of Agreophon |
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| Place: | 00a - Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza) |
| Century: | BC03 |
| Begin: | BC 263 |
| End: | BC 229 |
| Language/script: | bilingual: Greek, 10 Demotic and 14 bilingual Gree |
| Material: | papyrus |
| Texts: | 1831 |
| ↳ certain: | 1819 |
| ↳ uncertain: | 12 |
| ↳ erroneous: | |
| Type: | private archive, bookkeeping archive |
| Protagonist: | Zenon was at first the private secretary of Apollonios the dioiketes and later the manager of an estate of Apollonios in Philadelpheia. Here he also became a well-to-do businessman. |
| Description: | letters, petitions, accounts; a few fragments of literature |
| Studies: | Pestman e.a., A guide to the Zenon archive (P. L. Bat. 21), 1980; Orrieux, Zénon de Caunos, parépidèmos, et le destin grec, 1985; Clarysse / Vandorpe, Zénon, un homme d'affaires grec à l'ombre des pyramides, 1995 |
| Lists: | Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 248 no. 1; Seidl, Ptolemäische Rechtsgeschichte, 1962, p. 34-43 no. 19; Lüddeckens, LÄ VI, 1986, col. 883 (IX. H) |
| Work: | New editions, addenda and corrigenda to the texts of the Zenon archive (pdf; last update: April 27, 2011) |
| Collections: |
Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library Athens, Archaeological Society Athens, National Museum Athens, University, Historical Seminar Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum Cairo, Egyptian Museum Cairo, Egyptian Papyrological Society Cairo, Private collection Zaki Aly Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Florence, Istituto Papirologico 'G. Vitelli' Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, Bibliothek Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie London, British Library Madison, Wisconsin State University Manchester, John Rylands Library New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library New York, Columbia University Paris, Sorbonne, Institut de Papyrologie Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale |
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