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Last Updated on 08 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 375: hoi linourgoi

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Lydia
iii. Site Thyateira

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ λινουργοί (TAM V.2 933, l. 15)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi linourgoi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:linen-workers

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.2 933 (iii AD)
Note See also:
Dittmann-Schöne III.1.1
Online Resources TAM V.2 933
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific inscription. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Base (of a statue)

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The inscription is written in the (now lost) base of an honorific statue, but it is not said if it was erected in the private space of the association.

VII. ORGANIZATION

v. Other staff Two persons in charge of erecting the honorific statue are mentioned in the inscription, but it is not specified if they are members of the association or not.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The association must have proper funds in order to erect honorific statues like the one attested through this inscription.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The association honours Annianos, a friend of the emperor, twice asiarch (l. 2), best of the ethnos of Asia, first of the fatherland, rhetor and lawyer (l. 7).

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction There must be a narrow local interaction of the association with the city: the association honours a
person with very important official charges because of his continued good actions towards the city. The
inscription is also a praise to the city: τὴν πατρίδα τὴν ἑαυτοῦ τὴν λαμπροτάτην καὶ διασημοτάτην καὶ μεγίστην Θυατειρηνῶν πόλιν, ten patrida ten eautou ten lamprotaten kai diasemotaten kai megisten Thyateirenon polin (ll. 10-14) (his fatherland, the most brilliant and distinguished and best city of the Thyateirenon).
ii. Interaction abroad The nature of the honoured man (asiarch) and the probability that he was also honoured for his acting in behalf of the association (maybe in his qualities of rhetor or lawyer, cf. Dittmann-Schöne) makes it possible that the association had interaction abroad.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 180.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note It is a craftmanship-association (the linen-workers).