The
dioiketes
was a financial official. In the Ptolemaic period, there were local
dioiketai
and a
dioiketes
located centrally in Alexandria; in the early Roman period, the
dioiketes
was a lower rank administrator, and from 120
CE
onward a Roman
procurator
. In 284
CE
, he was replaced by the
katholikos
. The present article only concerns the Ptolemaic central
dioiketes
in Alexandria.
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