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Geographical area |
Western Asia Minor
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Region |
Ionia
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Site |
Miletus
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Full name (original language) |
Τεμεν̣[εῖται] (Milet VI.2 804)
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Full name (transliterated) |
Temen[eitai]
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Source(s) |
Milet VI.2 804
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Source type(s) |
Epigraphic source(s)
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Document(s) typology & language/script |
Dedication (?) Greek.
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Physical format(s) |
Fragment of a marble column
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Members |
οἱ συνα̣[χθέντες] Τεμεν̣[εῖται], hoi synachthentes Temeneitai
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Meetings and events |
The members are called hoi synachthentes Temeneitai. The verb συνάγεσθαι, synagesthai, which returns in most Milesian Temeneitai-inscriptions, has the technical meaning of "assembling for a banquet" (Ph. Gauthier, BE 1991, 426) and implies such a meeting also in this case.
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Worship |
The designation of the members as Temeneitai demonstrates the association's religious character.
The fragmentary inscription mentions several gods (ll. 5-7) in the dative and this may refer to dedications of an unclear nature.
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Deities worshipped |
Poseidon
Aphrodite?
Apollon Didymeus
(Milet VI.2 804 ll. 5-7: [--- Ποσ]ε̣ιδῶνι καὶ τῃ [Ἀ]φ̣[ροδίτῃ (?) καὶ (?) Ἀπ]όλλωνι Διδυμε̣[ῖ ---], Poseidoni kai te Aphrodite kai Apolloni Didymei)
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Comments |
The inscription does not specify the name of the association but just uses the generic term Temeneitai without the usual reference to certain gods. The association could therefore be identical with one of the other milesian associations of Τεμεν(ε)ῖται, Temen(e)itai, or τεμενίζοντες, temenizontes.
On groups of temenizontes, Temenitai in Miletus in general cf. CAPInv. 998.
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Private association |
Certain
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Note |
The terminology employed (temeneitai) and the religious character indicates a private association.
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