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Last Updated on 06 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1376: synodos Deidatos

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
ii. Nome Arsinoites (00)
iii. Site Theadelphia

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) σύνοδος Δειδᾶτος (P.Lond. III 1170 verso, l. 70)
ii. Full name (transliterated) synodos Deidatos

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 259 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:Deidas
iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος synodos
Note synodos: P.Lond. III 1170 verso, l. 70

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Lond. III 1170 verso, l. 70 (25 May AD 259)
Online Resources P.Lond. III 1170 verso
TM 11762
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Accounts of Heroninus in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) papyrus

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) On the basis of the name of the synodos, it is possible that the founder was Deidas.
ii. Leadership On the basis of the name of the synodos, it is possible that the leader was Deidas.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iii. Income These entries of payments to the synodos are for the festival of Liloition (for wine?): l. 70

IX. MEMBERSHIP

vi. Proper names and physical features Deidas

X. ACTIVITIES

ii. Meetings and events Festival of the Liloition: l. 71 Λιλοϊτίου, Liloitiou.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction Deidas also appears as a worker on the estate, and was apparently a donkey driver (see l. 82 ὀνηλάτου onelatou).

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Rathbone, D. (1991) Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third Century AD Egypt. The Heroninos archive and the Appianus Estate. Cambridge: 147.
Westermann, W.L. (1932) 'Entertainment in Villages of Graeco-Roman Egypt', JEA 18.1/2: 16-27.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Previous discussions of these groups have identified them as associations and there is nothing that suggests they could not have been.