The Career of Some Officials in the Arsinoite Nome in the Early Second Century BC

Abstract

The documents from the archive of the sitologos Adamas (P.Tebt. III 750-754, 756, 941) were written between c. 185 BC and 173 BC. They help us to approximately determine the length of the tenure of some officials of the Arsinoite nome: the epimeletai Argeios (c. 185 B – 179/8 BC) and Ptolemaios (c. 179/8 BC – 177 BC) and the oikonomos Ptolemaios (c. 184 BC – 179/8 BC). The functions of other contemporary officials, such as Leonides (oikonomos of the Arsinoite nome or of the meris of Themistos?) and Diophantos (oikonomos of the division of Polemon?), remain somewhat uncertain.