financial director, or perhaps an accountant for tax receipts and administrative expenses. The oikonomos was probably a low-ranking figure, as accounts place them in charge of trivial local decisions and subordinate to the strategos, who functioned as governor of the satrapy. An inscription of a correspondence between two priests uncovered north of Sardis references an oikonomos named Asklepiades, and suggests that it was his duty to find and set up a location for a stele to be inscribed with the names of the priests and their initiates. Another inscription implies that oikonomoi were responsible for purchasing bulls for sacrifice at the Panegyreis. References Ancient Greek titles Byzantine ecclesiastical titles and offices Greek words and phrases