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Last Updated on 08 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 374: hoi akmastai

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Lydia
iii. Site Thyateira

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ ἀκμασταί (TAM V.2 957, l. 14)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi akmastai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Other:Related to the age of its members

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.1 957 (iii AD)
Note See also:
IGR IV 1234
Keil and Premerstein 1911: 26-8, no. 50
Online Resources TAM V.1 957
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific inscription by the senate and the association of the akmastai for a well known person on the community. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble base
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in the cemetery Sedi Kjöy at Ak Hissar in the territory of Thyateira

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iii. Age Adults
Note The name of the association indicates that it is constituted by adults, probably in opposition to the well attested association in the same city and time hoi peri ton Heraklea neaniskoi. Cf. the association of akmastai of Herakles in Daldis (SEG 29: 1215).

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship This association is probably related to Herakles, as the one in Daldis (SEG 29: 1215) whose name includes the theophoric.
Deities worshipped probably Herakles
iv. Honours/Other activities The association is probably the proposer of the honorific statue that the synedrion (ll. 11-12) of Thyateira has erected for M. Aur. Preiskillianos Satorneilos, grandson of an asiarch (l. 4), neokoros (l. 5) and rhetor (l. 5), and son of an archiereia (ll. 6-7) of senatorial family and of a neokoros hippikos (ll. 9-10).

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The association has surely interaction with the other associations attested in Thyateira related to Herakles, and interaction with the city since it is the senate who erects the statue.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The relation of the association to such an important personality in the city, and to a decision made by the synedrion is another reason to think that this is another branch of the Herakles-association of the neaniskoi of the gymnasia (cf. TAM V.2 949, 994 etc.).
iii. Bibliography de Hoz, M.-P. (1999), Die Lydischen Kulte im Lichte der griechischen Inschriften. Bonn: no. 22.8.
Keil, J., and von Premerstein, A. (1911), Bericht über eine zweite Reise in Lydien ausgeführt 1908, (Denkschriften Akad. Wien Band 54.2). Vienna.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The association is probably private but with a narrow interaction with the public sphere, as the Herakles association of the neaniskoi (cf. supra).