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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 851: hoi synergastai

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ συνεργασταί (I.Tralleis and Nysa 162, lines 3-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi synergastai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 1 (?) - 200 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:συνεργα{στα}σταί, synergastai
The name denotes "fellow-workers".

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Tralleis und Nysa 162 (Roman imperial period)
Note Cf. also Dittmann-Schöne 2001: 207, no. IV.1.2.
Online Resources PHI: Tralles 16
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication of a sundial. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble base with a moulding at the top; the sundial, see below VI.ii, has not been preserved.
ii. Source(s) provenance Tralleis.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects τὸ ὡρολόγιον, to horologion (lines 2-3)
A sundial.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership Μᾶρκος Σίτριος Θύρσος? (lines 1-2)
Perhaps the individual who had the horologion and the inscription made out of his own funds, Marcus Sitrius Thyrsos, was responsible for leading the group in some capacity. The person is otherwise unknown.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The horologion is dedicated (in some way consecrated?) for the benefit of the synergastai by M. Sitrius Thyrsos.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2001), Die Berufvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens, Regensburg.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note This is only tentatively an association, since the vague name of "fellow-workers" does not provide enough information to make a decision on the matter. The name may have indicated a form of synergasia, a professional group of workers commonly attested in the CAPI database; it is only rarely that one finds synergazomenoi which perhaps imply this form of comnon activity, cf. for instance CAPInv. 1239. Instead, this designation may have simply referred to the group of individuals (whether professional workers or slaves) who came together temporarily and undertook the construction of the clock at the behest of the principal dedicant, M. Sitrius Thyrsos. In return, this man then consecrated the sundial for their benefit (along with perhaps that of others).