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Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 907: symbiosis philoneikon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) συμβίωσις φιλονείκων (TAM V.3 1521, l. 1)
ii. Full name (transliterated) symbiosis philoneikon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii - iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Other:The term "friends of victory", philoneikon, probably refers to a common sportive agonistic dedication.
iii. Descriptive terms συμβίωσις, symbiosis
Note symbiosis: TAM V.3 1521, l. 1


For the identification between symbiosis and doumos cf. Buresch 1898: 59. For the identification between symbiosis and phratra in Lydia cf. Herrmann 1962: 42f., n. 157, with reference to Artemidoros Daldianos (IV 44 and V 82).

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.3 1521 (ii-iii AD)
Note See also:
SEG 46: 1540
EA 26: 18f., no. 14
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Building inscription with (only very fragmentary preserved) indication of penalty for some sort of transgression related to decrease of something. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Part of a wall architrave made of limestone.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in 1994 not far away from Yesilova.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

i. Archaeological remains The block found is part of the architrave of a probably public building, maybe a stoa. For the possibility that is was a public building in which different associations (also the symbiosis psilagnaphon in TAM V.3 1519) were interested, cf. Zimmermann 2002: 126.

VII. ORGANIZATION

vi. Laws and rules There is some rule preventing from decreasing something (the text is damaged).

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iii. Income The association has revenues: [ἐκ τῶν τῆς] συνβιώσεως φιλονείκων προσόδων ([ek tôn tês] synbioseos philoneikon prosodon, TAM V.3 1521, l. 1)

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The name of the association indicates that it has agonistic activities.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction If the building to which the inscribed architrave belongs is a public one, the association has some sort of local interaction, at least through the use of public space.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Buresch, K. (1898), Aus Lydien. Epigraphisch-Geographische Reisefrüchte. Leipzig: 59.
Herrmann, P. (1962), Ergebnisse einer Reise in Nordostlydien. Vienna: 42f., n. 157.
Petzl, G. (1996), ‘Neue Inschriften aus Lydien (I)’, EA 26: 1-29.
Zimmermann, C. (2002), Handwerkervereine im griechischen Osten des Imperium Romanum. Mainz: 126.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The fact that it is an association relating persons with a common sportive interest makes it possible that it is private; but it could also be a semipublic association like the associations of neoi or epheboi related to the gymnasion.
For other related symbioseis in Lydia cf. CAPInv. 1663 and CAPInv. 1685.