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I. LOCATION

i.	Geographical area	Western Asia Minor
ii.	Region	Troas
iii.	Site	Ilion? (in the surroundings of Hissarlik)

II. NAME

i.	Full name (original language)	φράτρα Πηγάσων (Pleket 1958 no. 4 ll. 4-5)
ii.	Full name (transliterated)	phratra Pegason

III. DATE

i.

Date(s)

f. i AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii.

Name elements

Geographical:

Pegasa: city in Troas attested in Stephanus Byzantius.
Pleket (1958 11 n. 9) dismiss any connection of the Pegaseis with Pegasa, a city in Troas.
However, it should not be ruled out the possibility that Pegasa was a local toponym, so far unattested.

Heroic:

Pegasos ?: the mythical winged horse of Bellerephontes.
Pleket (1958: 10) suggests the following based on the possible connection of the name Pegasoi to the mythical horse Pegasos:
1. members of a horse-club
2. association of horse-breeders
Pleket points out that the evidence at hand is inconclusive for adequately explaining the name of the group. He also notes (10 n. 9) that if the name derived from Pegasos, one would expect the group to have been called Pegasaioi.

iii.

Descriptive terms

φράτρα, phratra

Note

l. 4
According to Seyfarth (1955: 28-33) the term phratra is probably a Hellenistic creation, notwithstanding that it is interchangeably used with the term phratria. Although in classical times the term stands for civic subdivisions, in Roman Asia Minor it is used to denote private associations, mostly of groups centered around a leader (ἡ περὶ τὸν δεῖνα φράτρα) with cult interests (see also Pleket 1958: 5).

V. SOURCES

i.	Source(s)	Pleket 1958: no. 4 (f. i AD)
	Note	Pfuhl-Möbius no. 2175 (for the stele)
	Online Resources	IMT Gran/Pariane 1102
i.a.	Source type(s)	Epigraphic source(s)
i.b.	Document(s) typology & language/script	Funerary inscription in Greek for Zosimos. The funerary stele was set up by the parents, Eukarpos and Synpherousa, and two phratrai, the phratra Pegason and the phratra Philokesareon.
i.c.	Physical format(s)	Marble stele with a recessed panel depicting the deceased in relief - bust of a boy. The panel is surmounted by a tympanon (pediment) with akroteria in the corners and a rosette in the centre. Two laurel wreaths are engraved under and besides the text of the inscription. H. 82 x W. 46 x Th. 11 cm.
ii.	Source(s) provenance	Found in the surroundings of Hissarlik.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i.

Treasury/Funds

The two wreaths carved on the stele may stand for crowns bestowed on the deceased by the two phratrai. This is positive evidence that the phratra had its own financial means.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iii.	Age	Children Adults
	Note	Pleket (1958: 6) considers unlikely that Zosimos, the deceased boy, was a member of the association on account of his young age. He suggests that the parents were members of these associations. However, in other instances membership in an association could extend to children and family members.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv.

Honours/Other activities

The phratra paid tribute to the deceased by sharing probably the cost for the erection of the funerary stele. Furthermore, the two wreaths carved on the stele may stand for crowns bestowed on the deceased by the two phratrai.

XI. INTERACTION

i.

Local interaction

The phratra Pegason commemorated Zosimos together with the phratra Philokesareon (CAP Inv. 1010) and the boy's parents.

XII. NOTES

i.	Comments	Pleket (1958: 5) considers that in Roman Asia Minor the phratra stands for 'a brotherhood formed very often for religious purposes'. The deceased is posthumously honoured (laurel-wreaths) by two phratrai. It remains unclear whether the deceased enjoyed membership in both phratrai or whether it was due to his parents' membership that the phratrai paid honours to the deceased.
iii.	Bibliography	Pleket, H.W. (1958), Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden (nuntii ex museo antiquario Leidensi). The Greek Inscriptions in the 'rijksmuseum van Oudheden' at Leiden, (Supplement op nieuwe Reeks XXXVIII). Leiden. Seyfarth, J. (1955), ‘Φράτρα und Φρατρία im nachklassischen Griechentum’, Aegyptus 35: 3-38. Veligianni, C. (2001), 'Philos und philos-Komposita in den griechischen Inschriften der Kaiserzeit', in M. Peachin (ed.), Aspects of friendship in the Graeco-Roman world. Proceedings of a conference held at the Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Heidelberg on 10-11 June, 2000, (JRA Suppl. 43): 63-80.

XIII. EVALUATION

i.	Private association	Certain
	Note	The terminology used (phratra: brotherhood in Roman Asia Minor, see above XII.i.) makes it likely that the group here is a private association.

CAPInv. 1021: phratra Pegason