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Author: Sofia Kravaritou

CAPInv. 1306: hoi syndaphnaphoroi

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Central Greece
ii. Region Thessaly. Tetras of Pelasgiotis.
iii. Site Atrax.

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ συνδαφναφόροι (SEG 47: 679, ll. 3-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi syndaphnaphoroi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) l. v BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:The ritual of Septerion celebrated every nine years at Delphi encompassed a reproduction of Apollo's purification at Tempe (Thessaly) after the killing of Python. A boy (amphithales pais) acted Apollo's part and fled from Delphi, in order to receive purification at Tempe. On his way back he was transferring -along with an auletes and followed by a procession-, the sacred laurel (daphne) (Helly 1977: 16-7; idem 1987: 141-2).
Theophoric:Daphnephoros was a cult epithet of Apollo.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 47: 679 (l. v BC)
Note See also:
AD 49 (1994): 340, no. 21
Online Resources SEG 47: 679
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Votive inscription in Greek on behalf of the archidauchnaphores (l. 4) Euphorbos and the syndaphnaphoroi.
i.c. Physical format(s) Pedimental stele of white marble bearing rectangular holes on the upper part of the front and lateral sides. The inscription is engraved in the centre of the frontside.
ii. Source(s) provenance Ancient Atrax. Now in the Museum of Larisa, Inv. no. 94/27.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership The text mentions an archidauchnaphores, in every probability the leader of the group of syndaphnephoroi.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The group dedicates a stele to un unknown deity.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments On the presence of groups of dauchnaphoroi in Tyrnavos, ancient Pherai and Larisa, cf. CAPInv. 1297; CAPInv. 1300; CAPInv. 1294
iii. Bibliography Helly, Br. (1977), ‘Apollon Doreios. Recherches sur les Doriens de Thessalie’, in Recherches sur la Thessalie, Lyon.
Helly, Br. (1987), ‘Le ''Dotion Pedion'', Lakéreia et les origines de Larisa’, JS 3(1): 127-58.
Mili, M. (2015). Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly. Oxford: 243-4, n. 152.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The use of the cultic name syndaphnaphoroi most probably indicates the presence of a cultic association.