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Apion family
The Apion family were a dynasty of great landowners in Byzantine Egypt, based at Oxyrhynchus, from the fifth to the early seventh century. Members held high offices in Constantinople, among them Flavius Apion II, consul in 539. Papyri from their estates, worked by tenants and labourers, are a major source for the economy of late antique Egypt.
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