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oikonomos

Hellenistic official

Also known as: oikonomoi

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history of Mesopotamia

In history of Mesopotamia: The Seleucid period
…were many financial officials (oikonomoi); some of them oversaw royal possessions, and others managed local taxes and other economic matters. The legal system in the Seleucid empire is not well understood, but presumably both local Mesopotamian laws and Greek laws, which had absorbed or replaced old Achaemenian imperial laws,…
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