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Last Updated on 08 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1431: rhabdistai

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ῥαβδισταί (P.Mich. II 123 recto, col. XIV, l. 16)
ii. Full name (transliterated) rhabdistai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 45 - 47 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:rhabdistai 'cloth-beaters'

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Mich. II 123 recto, col. XIV, l. 16; col. VI, l. 19 (AD 45-47)
Note P.Mich. II 123 recto
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i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Grapheion register, list of documents prepared, in Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) papyrus roll

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership Herodes the ἡγούμενος hegoumenos: col. XIV, l. 16.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments Payment made to the grapheion by Herodes the hegoumenos of the association for a memo (hypomnema) at a cost of 7 obols.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note No definitive descriptive term identifying this group as an association. On the basis of the presence of a hegoumenos it is probable that this was an association, but to be more definitive is difficult.