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I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i.	Full name (original language)	οἱ κηπουροί (Dittman-Schöne III.1.16, l. 18; Dittman-Schöne III.1.17, l. 4)
ii.	Full name (transliterated)	hoi kepouroi

III. DATE

i.

Date(s)

ii - iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii.

Name elements

Professional:

Gardeners

V. SOURCES

i.	Source(s)	Dittman-Schöne III.1.16 (238 AD or later) Dittman-SchöneIII.1.17 (II-III AD)
	Note	See also: Dittman-SchöneIII.1.17: Keil and von Premerstein 1911: 51, no. 110 TAM V.2 1168
	Online Resources	TAM V.2 1168
i.a.	Source type(s)	Epigraphic source(s)
i.b.	Document(s) typology & language/script	Dittman-Schöne III.1.16: honorific inscription Dittman-Schöne III.1.17: endowment? Greek.
i.c.	Physical format(s)	Dittman-Schöne III.1.16: marble base Dittman-Schöne III.1.17: marble plate
ii.	Source(s) provenance	Thyateira

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iii.	Income	Dittman-Schöne III.1.17: the word πρόσοδος, prosodos (income) appears in the inscription (l. 4), though the text is so much damaged that it is impossible to restitute the context.
iv.	Endowments	Dittman-Schone III.1.17: Keil and von Premerstein 1911: 51, no. 110 think that this very damaged inscription could be related to the inscription TAM V.2 939, where the endowment of a garden by a gardener is mentioned. From the annual incomes part is for a decurion and part for the gardeners. In TAM V.2 1168 the words "council", "half", "income" and "gardeners" are almost the only left.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv.

Honours/Other activities

Dittmann-Schöne III.1.16: the association honours Markos Gnaios Likinios Rouphinos, a man with many of the most important charges in Thyateira and abroad, an euergetes for each person individually and for all the community, who has supplied the city with countless foods and many and big buildings. He was probably an euergetes of the association. For the person honoured cf. TAM V.2 986 (where he is honoured by the tanners).

On the importance of honorific inscriptions set up by private associations in order to commemorate the relationships that they maintained with the leading members of society cf. van Nijf 1997: 73f.

XI. INTERACTION

i.

Local interaction

The honorific inscription of Dittmann-Schöne III.1.16 supposes that the association had local interactions in the city, for it honours a person for well-doing to the whole community. The inscription Dittmann-Schöne III.1.17 could be evidence of this interaction if it really spoke of the shared incomes of an endowment by the association and decuriones.

XII. NOTES

iii.

Bibliography

Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 191-2.
Herrmann, P. (1997), ‘Die Karriere eines prominenten Juristen in Thyateira’, Tyche 12: 111-23.
Keil, J., and von Premerstein, A. (1911), Bericht über eine zweite Reise in Lydien ausgeführt 1908, (Denkschrift A.W. 54.2). Vienna: 51, no. 110.
Laum, B. (1914), Stiftungen in der griechischen und römischen Antike. Ein Beitrag zur antiken Kulturgeschichte. Leipzig: 99, no. 94c.
Millar, F. (1999), ‘The Greek East and Roman Law: The Dossier of M. Cn. Licinius Rufinus’, JRS 89: 90-108.
van Nijf, O. (1997), The civic world of professional associations in the Roman East. Amsterdam: 73f.

XIII. EVALUATION

i.	Private association	Certain
	Note	It is a crafmanship-association.

CAPInv. 392: hoi kepouroi