Zeno of Caunus

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Ancient Greek public official and scribe

WritersLived 300 BC to 300 BC · aged 0

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Zenon or Zeno, son of Agreophon, was a public official in Ptolemaic Egypt around the 250s-230s BCE. He is known from a cache of his papyrus documents which was discovered by archaeologists in the Nile Valley in 1914.

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Part of a letter discussing tax issues from the Zenon Archive, written in Greek on papyrus (3rd century BRPB, National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

Writers born in the 300s BC 6

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Zeno of Caunus

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Writers born in the 300s BC 6

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