Zenon of Kaunos
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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
Part of a letter discussing tax issues from the Zenon Archive, written in Greek on papyrus (3rd century BRPB, National Archaeological Museum, Athens)
Faiyum
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Faiyum is a city located geographically in Lower Egypt but culturally and politically in Upper Egypt 100 kilometres, southwest of Cairo. In the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Gov
Zenon of Kaunos
…archaeologists in the Nile Valley in 1914. Zeno was a native of the Greek town of Kaunos in Caria in southwestern Asia Minor. He moved to the town of Philadelphia in Egypt, a busy market town that had been founded on the edge of the Faiyum by Ptolemy II Philadelphus in honour of his sister Arsinoe II. From the…
Madinat Fayyum Water Wheel
Valley whales in Fayoum
Qasr Qarun Facade
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