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Fascinating papyrus evidence for the extensive support required to maintain war elephants. To give a comparative sense, in 217, the Ptolemaic army had just 73 elephants at Raphia (Plb. 5.79.2), but there are 231 elephant hunters in just this document.https://twitter.com/ProfPaul_J/status/1325105173560233985 …
In addition to hunters, maintaining elephants required mahouts, riders, trainers, feeders, attendants and even more. For hunting, training, feeding, it was a huge effort to keep war elephants. For more on war elephants, note: https://acoup.blog/2019/07/26/collections-war-elephants-part-i-battle-pachyderms/ … (with some bibliography).
The elephant hunters were mostly soldiers (in this case, probably the attested mercenary cavalry of Andronikos), and aside from specialized elephant handlers, the hunts were small military campaigns, often fighting local tribes and/or killing elephants for ivory.
Ptolemy III likely seized dozens of Indian elephants in the Third Syrian War, but by the 220's I'd wager both his original African (and Indian) elephants and the ones seized from the Seleucids had mostly died out. Thus lots of hunts in the mid-late 220's.
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