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Author: Alexandru Avram

CAPInv. 1206: ho oikos ton Alexandreon

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Thrace
ii. Region Euxine Coast
iii. Site Tomis

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ὁ οἶκος τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων (I.Tomis 153, ll. 7-8)
ii. Full name (transliterated) ho oikos ton Alexandreon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 160 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Ethnic:Alexandreis
iii. Descriptive terms οἶκος, oikos
Note oikos: I.Tomis 153, ll. 7-8

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Tomis 153 (26 March AD 160).
Note See also: IGR I 604, AGRW 82, SEG 47: 1040
Online Resources I.Tomis 153 and AGRW ID 3730
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication (in Greek) to Sarapis and the synnaoi theoi, to emperor Antoninus Pius and M. Aurelius Verus Caesar and to the oikos ton Alexandreon dated according to the Aegyptian calendar.
i.c. Physical format(s) Bomos of marble; damaged ('re-discovered' recently in the collection of the University of Caen, France).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

i. Archaeological remains The bomos itself.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials Two or three hiereis (ll. 10-12).

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note Only the author of the dedication (l. 6) and two priests (hiereis, ll. 10-12) are mentioned, possibly also a third one, whose name is broken (l. 13). They were men.
iii. Age Adults

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship On the basis of the dedication to Sarapis and the σύνναοι θεοί, synnaoi theoi, worship by the group may be supposed.
Deities worshipped Sarapis and the synnaoi theoi.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments For another association of merchants in Tomis see CAPInv. 1199.
ii. Poland concordance Poland E 25
iii. Bibliography Avram, A. (2006), ‘Une inscription de Tomis redécouverte à Caen’, in L. Mihailescu-Bîrliba and O. Bounegru (eds.), Studia historiae et religionis daco-romanae in honorem Silvii Sanie. Bucharest: 277-83.
Bounegru, O. (2006), Trafiquants et navigateurs sur le Bas Danube et dans le Pont Gauche à l’époque romaine. Wiesbaden: 43-51, 135 no. 35.
Tacheva-Hitova, M. (1983), Eastern Cults in Moesia Inferior and Thracia (5th Century B.C. – 4th Century A.D.). Leiden: 12-3 no. I.17.
Takacs, S.A. (1995), Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World. Leiden: 189.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology used points to a private association.