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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 850: he syntechnia ton linyphon

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Caria
iii. Site Tralleis

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἡ συντεχνία τῶν λινύφων (I.Tralleis and Nysa 79, lines 6-7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) he syntechnia ton linyphon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 150 (?) - 200 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:ἡ συντεχνία, he syntechnia
οἱ λινύφοι, hoi linyphoi
The two terms refer to a group of artisans, and to one of "linen-weavers" or workers, respectively.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Tralleis und Nysa 79 (ca. 150-200 AD?)
Note Cf. also Dittmann-Schöne 2001: 207, no. IV.1.1.
Online Resources PHI: Tralles 74
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication in Greek, probably of statue.
i.c. Physical format(s) Incompletely understood.
ii. Source(s) provenance Üç Gözler.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The group honours Eutyches for his complete annual service as agoranomos (of the city). For the individual, perhaps identical with M. Nonius Eutyches, cf. I. Tralleis and Nysa 90.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The group honours the local agoranomos, testifying to its local and immediate concern for the proper administration of the marketplace of the city.

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Cf. 117 and 604.
iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2001), Die Berufvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens, Regensburg.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Cases of professional groups, such as this one, raise interesting questions about their corporative and durative character. Here, it seems reasonable to infer that we are dealing with a private, independent group of workers which honoured a civic official connected to its sphere of activity; beyond this specific outcome, it perhaps also formed a coherent association.