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Author: Mario C.D. Paganini

CAPInv. 1973: synodos Doryphorou

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
ii. Nome Arsinoites (00)
iii. Site Tebtynis

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) σύνωδος Δωροφόρου (l. σύνοδος Δορυφόρου) (SEG 41: 1638, ll. 2-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) synodos Doryphorou

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 54 - 62 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:Doryphoros: it may refer to the name of an Imperial estate in Tebtynis, named after one of the liberti of Nero.
iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος, synodos
Note synodos: l. 3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 41: 1638 (AD 54-62)
Note Other publications: SB XX 15149. Ed.pr. Bastianini and Gallazzi (1991)
Online Resources TM 102572
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek inscription, probably recalling the building or renovation of the deipneterion where the plaque was found under the presidency of Onnophris.
i.c. Physical format(s) Limestone plaque
ii. Source(s) provenance From a deipneterion along the dromos of the tempe of Tebtynis. The plaque was found in a building buried underneath another deipneterion of more recent age.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

i. Archaeological remains The plaque was located in a deipneterion presumably used by the association.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Doryphoros may have been the founder of the association or the association could have taken its name from an Imperial estate of Tebtynis, named after Claudius Doryphoros a libertus of Nero in charge of judicial complaints (a libellis), and gathered people from the estate.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership προστάτης, prostates: the man was called Onnophris, son of Potamon (ll. 1-2)
Eponymous office ἐπὶ Ὀννοφριος τοῦ Ποτάμωνος τοῦ προστάτου epi Onnophrios tou Potamonos tou prostatou (ll. 1-2).

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note The prostates bore a male name.
vi. Proper names and physical features Onnophris, son of Potamon

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Bastianini, G. and Gallazzi, C. (1991), 'Un'iscrizione inedita di Tebtynis e la synodos di Doryphorus', ZPE 89 (1991): 44-46.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The typology of the text, the use of the term synodos, the archaeological context (deipneterion), the internal hierarchy and organisation of the group makes it certain that this was a private association.