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Last Updated on 13 Mar 2017

Author: Maria-Gabriella Parissaki

CAPInv. 1490: U-THR-037

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Thrace
ii. Region Inland Thrace
iii. Site Nicopolis ad Istrum or Marcianopolis

II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-THR-037

III. DATE

i. Date(s) Imp.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IGBulg V 5329 (Imp.)
Online Resources IGBulg V 5329
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication in Greek to the god Souregethes
i.c. Physical format(s) Rectangular limestone stele, broken at its upper left corner (1.10 x 0.50 x 0.16). A relief decorates the upper part (two rows of nine people in procession), the inscription running below.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found at Dobroplodno (Varna district)

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number The dedication was set up by five persons; the relief depicts 18 in total.
ii. Gender Men
Note The attested names are male names.
iv. Status The five dedicants were of Thracian origin, as indicated by their names.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The dedication to the god Souregethes suggests worship by the group.
Deities worshipped Souregethes

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The relief decorating the stele is usually interpreted as depicting the members of a cult association; see IGBulg V, p. 162: 'anaglyphum monstrat dedicatores membra collegii Suregethem colentis fuisse' and SEG 45: 862: 'probably the members of a cult association who are about to attend a banquet'.
For a συμπόσιον θεοῦ Σουρεγέθου, symposion theou Souregethou, from Philippi, see CAPInv. 1635.
iii. Bibliography Beshevliev, V. (1985), ‘New inscription of God Souregethes’, Bulletin du Musée national de Varna 21: 5-10.
Beshevliev, V. (1995) ‘Θεός Σουρεγέθης’, in A. Fol (ed.), Studia in honorem Georgii Mihailov, Sofia: 55-8.
Najdenova, V. (1987), ‘A shrine of Ares Suregethes in Thrace’, Terra Antiqua Balcanica II: 252-8.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The view that IGBulg V 5329 should be interpreted as indicating the existence of a cult association is based exclusively on the panel relief. Nothing in the text indicates a permanent associative organisation.