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Last Updated on 13 Mar 2017

Author: Alexandru Avram

CAPInv. 1210: Taureastai

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Thrace
ii. Region Euxine coast
iii. Site Istros

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Ταυρεασταί (I.Histriae 60-61 and Avram 2014: 273, no. 2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Taureastai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii BC - ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

i. Name in other forms Ταυριασταί Tauriastai (I.Histriae 57, ll. 26-7) (phonetic variant)
ii. Name elements
Theophoric:Association of worshippers of Poseidon Tauros (or Taureios)

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Histriae 60 (ii BC)
I.Histriae 61 (ii BC)
Avram 2014: 273, no. 2 (ii BC)
I.Histriae 57 (s. ii AD)
Online Resources I.Histriae 57 and AGRW ID 16139
I.Histriae 60 and AGRW ID 17667
I.Histriae 61 and AGRW ID 17669
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script I.Histriae 60-61 and Avram 2014: 273, no. 2 are fragmentary decrees in Greek by the Taureastai.
I.Histriae 57 is a Greek honorary decree for Aba Hekataiou, a benefactress of citizens and of several associations.
i.c. Physical format(s) I.Histriae 60-61 and Avram 2014: 273, no. 2 are more or less substantial fragments of marble steles.
I.Histriae 57 is composed by nine joining fragments of a marble stele.
ii. Source(s) provenance Istros

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities Honours awarded to three persons (I.Histriae 60-61 and Avram 2014: 273, no. 2), inter alia a crown (golden or rather vegetal?) in I.Histriae 60, ll. 8-9. It is not sure that these persons, whose names are not preserved, where members of the associations or external benefactors.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments Aba was also a benefactress of the tektones (CAPInv. 1208), the Herakleiastai (CAPInv. 1209), and the speira Dionysiaston presbyteron (CAPInv. 1218).
iii. Bibliography Avram, A. (2014), ‘Inscriptions d'Istros’. Dacia N.S. 58: 271-84, esp. 273, no. 2.
Chiekova, D. (2008), Cultes et vie religieuse des cités grecques du Pont Gauche (VIIe-Ier siècles avant J.-C.). Bern: 212-3.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The context suggests a private association.