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Geographical area |
Eastern Asia Minor
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Region |
Cilicia
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Site |
Anazarbos
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Full name (original language) |
ἡ ξαντικὴ (συντεχνία)
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Full name (transliterated) |
he xantike (syntechnia)
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Name elements |
| Professional: | xantike (syntechnia), the wool carders
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Source(s) |
I.Anazarbos 4 (207 AD)
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Note |
See also:
AGRW 211
Gough 1952: 129-31 no. 2.
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Online Resources |
I.Anazarbos 4
AGRW 211 ID# 1515
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Source type(s) |
Epigraphic source(s)
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Document(s) typology & language/script |
Honorific inscription, Greek.
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Physical format(s) |
Limestone base for a statue, H. 1.45 m, W. 0.60 m, Th. 0.60 m.
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Source(s) provenance |
Found in a fosse in the west of the northern city gate.
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Members |
Some of the members of the association act as carriers of the sacred objects (hieraphoroi) in processions and rituals, maybe in the imperial cult.
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Worship |
Some of the members of the association act as carriers of the sacred objects (hieraphoroi) in processions and rituals, maybe in the imperial cult.
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Deities worshipped |
Imperial cult?
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Honours/Other activities |
Several hieraphoroi of associations and the ostiarii honoured the emperor Caracalla with a statue.
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Local interaction |
The hieraphoroi of several associations collaborate together in processions and rituals as carriers of sacred objects and together with the ostiarii for the erection of a statue (cf. CAPInv. 1779 and CAPInv. 1781.
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Bibliography |
Gough, M. (1952), ‘Anazarbus’, AS 2: 85-149, esp. 129-31, no. 2.
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Private association |
Probable
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Note |
The xantike (syntechnia) appear to be a professional association with a frequent participation of its members (or at least part of them) in the imperial cult.
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Historical authenticity |
Certain
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