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Author: Stella Skaltsa

CAPInv. 1008: hoi symmystai [Poi]m[an]eno[n]

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Mysia
iii. Site Aisepos (south of Gönen)

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ συμμύσται [Ποι]μ[αν]ηνῶ[ν] (I.Kyz. 312 ll. 7-8)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi symmystai [Poi]m[an]eno[n]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) iii (?) - ii (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Geographical:Poimanenon: a small fortified town, located south of the Sea of Marmara (probably at modern Eski Manyas)

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Kyz. 312 (iii-ii BC?)
Note Lolling, MDAI(A) 9 (1884): 35

Hasluck 1910: no. V 192
Jaccottet 2003, vol. 2: no. 89
AGRW 106
Online Resources IMT Aisep/Kad Dere 1181

AGRW 106 ID 288
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscription in Greek for Menekrates son of Androneikos. The symmystai Poimanenon set up an hypomnema for Menekrates.
i.c. Physical format(s) Not given.
ii. Source(s) provenance Aisepos (south of Gönen).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects ὑπόμνημα, hypomnema (l. 1), i.e. funerary monument

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members συμμύσται, symmystai (l. 7)

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The symmystai built (kataskeuasan, l. 5) the funerary monument (hypomnema, l. 1) for Menekrates son of Andronikos.

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland B 411
iii. Bibliography Hasluck, F.W. (1910), Cyzicus. Being Some Account of the History and Antiquities of that City, and of the District Adjacent to it, with the Towns of Apollonia Ad Rhyndacum, Miletupolis, Hadrianutherae, Priapus, Zeleia, etc.. Cambridge.

Jaccottet, A.-F. (2003), Choisir Dionysos: les associations dionysiaques, ou, La face cachée du dionysisme. Kilchberg.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note It is not clear whether the symmystai formed a private association or were initiates in a mystery cult. The fact that they are designated after a locale may point to some attempt to distinguish themselves from other groups.