Tlepolemos (Egypt)

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Tlepolemos ( Greek  Τληπόλεμος ), son of Artapates, was an official of the Ptolemaic Empire who came from Xanthos . His father's name suggests Iranian origin or relationship.

In 256 BC Tlepolemus won the Olympic Games in foal riding and conveyed an order from King Ptolemaios II to Zenon of Kaunos , in 247/246 and 246/245 he was an eponymous Alexander priest . In the Third Syrian War (246–241 BC) he was a high official in what was then Ptolemaic Caria . He may have been the grandfather of the eponymous regent Tlepolemos .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pausanias 5: 8, 11

literature

personal data
SURNAME Tlepolemos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ptolemaic civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC Chr.