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Author: Georgia Malouchou

CAPInv. 1927: U-AEI-023

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Aegean Islands
ii. Region Chios
iii. Site Volissos village

II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-AEI-023

III. DATE

i. Date(s) i BC

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Forrest 1966: 198-200 no. 3 (i BC).
Online Resources McCabe, Chios 227
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script List of contributors in Greek for the building and adornment(?) of a temple.
i.c. Physical format(s) Stele of local grey limestone.
ii. Source(s) provenance Built into the church of the Panagia Chrysokephalos in Plaka, 1 km south of Volissos on the road to Chora (Forrest 1966: 198).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects hieron (Forrest 1966: 198-200 no. 3 l. 6)

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members Chian women.
iv. Officials cult officials: therapneuousa, therapneuon, hierokeryx

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Women

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship Women from Chios contribute for the building and adornement(?) of a temple of an unknown deity.
Deities worshipped Perhaps Demeter or Helena (Forrest 1966: 200).

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Zolotas, G. (1908), ‘Χιακῶν καὶ ᾿Ερυθραϊκῶν ἐπιγραφῶν συναγωγή’, Athena 20: 216 no. 14.
Forrest, W. G. (1966), ‘Some Inscriptions of Chios’, ABSA 61: 198-200 no. 3.
Graf, F. (1985), Nordionische Kulte, Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana: 70 note 16 and 432 I.Ch. 8.
McCabe, D. and Brownson, J. (1986), Chios Inscriptions. Texts and List. The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton: no. 82.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The donation of money only by women for the building and adornement (?) of a temple indicates that these women were perhaps members of a cult association.This assumption is further supported by the appearance of the therapneuousa (cf. Forrest 1966: 200).