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Author: Ursula Kunnert

CAPInv. 1759: hoi philoi

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Eastern Asia Minor
ii. Region Cilicia
iii. Site Hierapolis Castabala

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ φίλοι (Hicks 1890: 249, no. 23, l. 6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi philoi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) i (?) - ii (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Other:social relations: philoi
iii. Descriptive terms φίλοι, philoi
Note philoi: Hicks 1890: 249, no. 23, l. 6

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Hicks 1890: 249, no. 23 (i (?) - ii (?) AD)
Note Other editions/commentaries:
AGRW
Jerphanion and Jalabert 1908: 473-5, no. 70
Online Resources Hicks 1890: 249, no. 23
AGRW ID# 13389
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific inscription. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Hicks provides no description of the stone.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in one of the Christian churches.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership A group of friends, philoi, erected a monument for their prostates (l. 6), the leader or patron of the group.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The philoi are honouring Onesikles, son of Diodoros, a poet of various genres, a writer of panegyrics and a lawyer, their prostates, the leader or patron of the group.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The inscription is the only evidence of Onesicles. His date is unknown. Jones 2001: 211, proposes to date the inscription to "the first or perhaps the early second century of our era".
ii. Poland concordance Poland B 451A
iii. Bibliography Hicks, E.L. (1890), ‘Inscriptions from Eastern Cilicia’, JHS 11: 236–54, esp. 249, no. 23.
De Jerphanion, G., and Jalabert, L. (1908), ‘Inscriptions d'Asie Mineure (Pont, Cappadoce, Cilicie)’, MUSJ 3: 433-77, esp. 473-5, no. 70.
Jones, C.P. (2001), ‘Greek Drama in the Roman Empire’, in G. Nagy (ed.), Greek Literature in the Roman Period and in Late Antiquity, New York: 205-19.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The mention of the honorand as prostates (patron or leader of the group) may indicate that the philoi are not only friends but constituted an organized private body.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain