Zenon, Itinerary, P.Zenon 59004.1-13
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Στράτων[ο]ς πύ(ργῳ)

, and

Stato’s Tower

are directly attested at Zenon, Itinerary, P.Zenon 59004.1-13. This passage was written ca. ca. 259 B.C.E. possibly in Syria-Palestine. Zenon was a native of Kaunos in southwestern Asia Minor. He worked in Philadelphia in Middle Egypt as the secretary of Apollonius, an advisor for finances and land (διοικήτης) under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the Greek king of Egypt during the first half to middle of the 3rd century B.C. An enormous cache of administrative records that Zenon wrote in Greek and Demotic on papyri (P.Zenon) was recovered during the 19th century. This particular text was written early in Zenon’s administrative career (ca. 259 B.C.E.), during a trip to survey Ptolemaic territory in the Middle East. The party’s route apparently traced a wide counterclockwise arc, landing at Strato’s Tower, advancing eastward across the Judaean Hills and the Jordan Valley, north into southern Syria, and back west through the northeastern Galilee, ending at Ptolemaïs. This passage lists the amount of flour as measured in artabai, an Egyptian unit of dry volume, consumed by the campaign at various centers.

ἀλεύρ̣̣[ων ] ἐν Στράτων[ο]ς πύ(ργῳ) ἀρτ(άβαι) εʹ ’Ιεροσολύμ[οις] ζʹ ἐν Ἐριχο[ῖ] εʹ ἐν Ἀβέλλοις γʹ (5) Σουραβιτ..οις ἀρτ(άβαι) θʹ Λακάσοις ιδʹ Νόηι ιʹ Εἰτουι ζʹ Βαιτιανατοις ιδʹ (10) Κυδίσωι βʹ ἐν Πτολεμαίδι δʹ ἀρτ(άβαι) οθʹ

[Ed. Edgar 1925]

(Amounts of) flour: At Stato’s Tower artabai 5 At Jerusalem 7 At Jericho 5 At Abella 3 At Sourabit artabai 9 At Lakasa 14 At Noë 10 At Heitos 7 At Baitianata 14 At Kydisos 2 At Ptolemaïs 4 Total: 79 artabai

[Trans. J. L. Rife with ref. to Abel 1923]

Works Cited

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[Abella of the Decapolis

Bethanath

Heit in the Hauran

Jericho

Jerusalem

Kedesh

Lakasa=Al-Kiswah

Nawa in the Hauran

Ptolemaïs (Accho, Acco, Akko)

Sourabit (Umm es-Surab)]

[Economy and Commerc

Food and Diet

Geography

Hellenistic History

Travel]