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Last Updated on 08 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 402: to homotechnon ton hyphanton

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) τὸ ὁμότεχνον τῶν ὑφαντῶν (SEG 33: 1017, ll. 4-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) to homotechnon ton hyphanton

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 156 / 157 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:guild of weavers
iii. Descriptive terms ὁμότεχνον
homotechnon (craftmanship)

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 33: 1017 (156/7 AD)
Online Resources SEG 33: 1017
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscriptions. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble stele with pediment
ii. Source(s) provenance Saittai

VII. ORGANIZATION

viii. Obligations The association had probably some sort of funerary obligation towards its members

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The association must have funds in order to be able to bury or erect funerary inscriptions to its members

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note The only evidence is that of a man 35 years old.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities Only funerary activities are attested.
On funerary activities of professional associations cf. van Nijf 1997: 38-69.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2001), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. Regensburg.
Naour, C. (1983), ‘Nouvelles inscriptions du moyen Hermos’, An.Ép. 2: 132, no. 18.
Van Nijf, O. (1997), The civic world of professional associations in the Roman East. Amsterdam.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note It is a craftmanship association