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Last Updated on 09 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 816: hoi synbolaphoroi (l. symbolaphoroi)

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ συνβολαφόροι (TAM V.1 576, ll. 5-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi synbolaphoroi (l. symbolaphoroi)

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 210 - 240 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:The name designates cultic officials. For
the term in relation to the cult of the god
Preietos in Bithynian cf. TAM IV 76;
Dorner 1963: 134; Herrmann 1962: 39
relates the symbolaphoroi with the in
Pergamon attested hieraphoroi,
especially of the egyptian cults.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.1 576 (210-240 AD)
Online Resources TAM V.1 576
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script It is a confession inscription dedicated to Artemis Anaitis and Men Tiamou by two brothers and the association. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Stele with pediment
ii. Source(s) provenance Görnevit

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The inscription seems to be a confession inscription (probably because of a cultic transgression) dedicated to Artemis Anaitis and Men Tiamou.
Deities worshipped Artemis Anaitis and Men Tiamou

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Diakonoff, I. (1979), ‘Artemidi Anaeiti anestesen. The Anaeitis dedications in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden at Leiden and the related material from eastern Lydia. A reconsideration’, BABesch 54: 148, no. 19, pl. 12.
Dörner, F.K. (1963), ‘Vorbericht über eine Reise in Bithynien und im bithynisch-paphlagonischen Grenzgebiet 1962’, AAWW 100: 132-9, esp. 134.
Herrmann, P. (1962), Ergebnisse einer Reise in Nordostlydien. Vienna: 39, no. 27, pl. IX 6.
de Hoz, M.-P. (1999), Die Lydischen Kulte im Lichte der griechischen Inschriften. Bonn: 100, no. 3.51.
Pleket, H.W. (1970), ‘Nine inscriptions from the Cayster-Valley in Lydia: A republication’, Talanta 2: 66ff, n. 15.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology used in the confession inscription is indicative of a private cultic association.