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Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 186: to synedrion ton akairodapis<t>on

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Phrygia
iii. Site Hierapolis

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) τὸ συνέδριον τῶν ἀκαιροδαπισ<τ>ῶν (SEG 46: 1656, ll. 6-7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) to synedrion ton akairodapis<t>on

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii - iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:ἀκαιροδαπισταί, akairodapistai
iii. Descriptive terms συνέδριον, synedrion
Note synedrion: SEG 46: 1656, ll. 6-7

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 46: 1656 (ii - iii AD)
Note See also:
Altertümer von Hierapolis 342

Judeich's reading καιροδαπιστῶν, kairodapiston has been corrected by Ritti to ἀκαιροδαπιστῶν, akairodapiston. Ritti's text also contains the last three lines of the text.
Online Resources Altertümer von Hierapolis 342
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Epitaph. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Sarcophagus
ii. Source(s) provenance Northern necropolis of Hierapolis

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iv. Endowments The association is the recipient of an endowment by a Jewish married couple and is thereby obligated to crown their grave. While the local porphyrabaphoi receive 200 denarii in order to distribute the revenues at a celebration on Pesach, the akairodapistai receive only 150 denarii, but have to meet at two dates: the festival of the kalends and the festival of pentecost. On each date, they shall distribute half of the income from the revenues.

X. ACTIVITIES

ii. Meetings and events The endowment specified two dates for celebrations in honor of the deceased and the crowning of their graves.
iii. Worship Ziebarth 1896: 129 takes the association to be Jewish, but Judeich (Altertümer von Hierapolis) has correctly objected that nothing warrants the conclusions that a) because of the donor's Jewishness, the whole association has to be Jewish, and b) that the donor was even a member of the association.

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland Z 68a
iii. Bibliography Ameling, W. (2004), Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis. Band II: Kleinasien. Tübingen: 414-22.
Ritti, T. (1992/1993), ‘Nuovi dati su una nota epigrafe sepolcrale con stefanotico da Hierapolis di Frigia’, Scienze dell'Antichità 6/7: 41-68.
Ziebarth, E. (1896), Das griechische Vereinswesen. Leipzig.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Professional associations in the 2nd/3rd century were often very close to the official civic institutions, but they probably remained essentially private associations.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain