Zenon of Kaunos

Zenon of Kaunos
Ζήνων
Born
Kaunos, Asia Minor
(modern-day Dalyan, Muğla, Turkey)
Other namesZeno
OccupationsFinancial private secretary and scribe
EraHellenistic period
EmployerApollonius
OrganizationPtolemaic Kingdom of Egypt
Known forZenon Papyri
FatherAgreophon

Zenon or Zeno (Greek: Ζήνων; 3rd century BC), son of Agreophon, was a public official in Ptolemaic Egypt around the 250s–230s BC. 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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