the zenon papyri, a collection of more than one thousand documents, are mainly concerned with the private estate of Apolonios, who was the chief financial minister of Ptolemy Philadelphos but also conducted a variety of business activities on his own account. the state was situated in a recently-drained area near the new city of Philadelphia and was still in the process of development. the accounts therefore reflect construccion projects as well as current agricultural and business operations. they span a period of approximately thirty years during the third century B.C. THE ZENON PAPYRI GIVE EVIDENCE OF A SURPRINSINGLY ELABORATE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM WHICH HAD BEEN USED IN gRECE SINCE THE FIFTH century B.C. and which, in the wake of greek trade or conquest, gradually spread throughout the Eastern Mediteranean and the middle east. when these areas became part of the Roman Empire, the Romans adopted the system with some modifications, and it thus became the official method.
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