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Last Updated on 09 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 1663: symbiosis KALOKA[?]

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Lydia
iii. Site Yesilova (territory of Philadelpheia)

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) συμβίωσις ΚΑΛΟΚΑ[?] (TAM V.3 1520, ll. 5-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) symbiosis KALOKA[?]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii - iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

iii. Descriptive terms συμβίωσις, symbiosis
Note symbiosis: TAM V.3 1520, ll. 5-6

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.3 1520 (ii - iii AD)
Note See also:
Robert and Robert 1950: 35-7
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication of a promised column by an individual. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Fragment of a marble column
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in Arapli Düz Mahalle (actual Yesilova) before 1886. Now in Manisa Museum.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

i. Archaeological remains The column was probably part of a building belonging to the association.
ii. References to buildings/objects Reference to the column (l. 5) where the text is inscribed.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members The only possible member attested is the donor of the column. But it is not sure he is also a member of the association.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments Robert and Robert 1950: 37, state the possibility (with reserves) that the name of the symbiosis could be Καλοκαρδίοις (Kalokardiois) or Καλοκάρδοις (Kalokardois) -those with a joyful heart-, a name attested only in byzantine and modern Greek, but that feeds the notion of an association. They compare with names like euemerioi or eutherapioi.
iii. Bibliography Robert, L., and Robert, J. (1950), Hellenica. Recueil d'épigraphie, de numismatique et d'antiquités grecques. Vol. 9. Paris: 35-7.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The symbioseis attested in Lydia are private associations, but nothing in the inscription proves it.
For other related symbioseis in Lydia cf. CAPInv. 907 and CAPInv. 1685.