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Last Updated on 15 May 2019

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 506: bennos Soenon

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Phrygia
iii. Site Upper Tembris Valley

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) βέννος Σοηνῶν (SEG 40: 1229, l. 7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) bennos Soenon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 98 - 117 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Geographical:The Soenoi refers to a village in the Upper Tembris Valley.
iii. Descriptive terms βέννος, bennos
Note bennos: SEG 40: 1229, l. 7

The last words were originally given as Βεννεισοηνῶν, Benneisoenon (e.g. CIG 3857l); Ramsay, assuming that Bennis was a god, opted for Βεννεῖ Σοηνῶν, Bennei Soenon (SEG 6: 151); Drew-Bear and Naour 1990: 1989 (SEG 40: 1229) have established βεννεῖ Σοηνῶν, bennei Soenon.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 40: 1229 (98 - 117 AD)
Note Ed.pr.:
CIG 3857l
Online Resources CIG 3857l
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedicatory inscription, greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble altar
ii. Source(s) provenance Altintas Köy

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The altar was dedicated for the victory of Trajan to Zeus Bennios by a private person; in the last line (without a καί, kai), the bennos Soenon is mentioned as the second recipient. This may suggest that the bennos worshipped Zeus Bennios.
Deities worshipped Zeus Bennios (?)

XII. NOTES

i. Comments On bennos as a term for "association", cf. CAPInv. 503
iii. Bibliography Drew-Bear, Th. and Naour, Chr. (1990), ‘Divinités de Phrygie’, ANRW II.18.3: 1907-2044.
Schwabl, H. (1999), ‘Zum Kult des Zeus in Kleinasien (II). Der phrygische Zeus Bennios und Verwandtes’, AAntHung 39: 345-54.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note This may be another example for the application of a term that could designate an association to a whole village.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain