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Last Updated on 08 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 397: <hoi prag>mateuomenoi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) <οἱ πραγ>ματευόμενοι (TAM V.2 862, l. 2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) <hoi prag>mateuomenoi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii - iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:The sellers
iii. Descriptive terms ἐργασταί, ergastai
Note ergastai: TAM V.2 862, ll. 5-6

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.2 862 (probably end of the 2nd. century- 3d. century AD because of the plural reference to emperors, if it not a dedication to following emperors).
Note See also:
Dittmann-Schöne III.1.20
Online Resources TAM V.2 862
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication of buildings to the divine Augusti. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Inscription probably engraved on the wall of a building.
ii. Source(s) provenance Thyateira

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects In the inscription TAM V.2 862 there is mention of a tripylon (l. 3), a stoa (l. 4), shops and the housings (ll. 4-6) inside them for the workers (ergastai)

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

ii. Realty A tripylon, stoai and shops with housings (TAM V.2 862, ll. 3-6).

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The dedication of buildings to the emperors is a way of honouring them.
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, 74-5 for the rare habit of dedicating to emperors, which van Nijf compares to dedications to the gods and explains as "demonstrations of the loyalty of his subjects, rather than the product of any special relationship". This inscription is a good evidence for the comparison to dedications to the gods, who often receive such dedication of buildings.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 193-4.
van Nijf, O. (1997), The civic world of professional associations in the Roman East. Amsterdam: 73-5.
Robert, L. (1949), Hellenica, Recueil d'épigraphie, de numismatique et d'antiquités grecques. Vol 7. Paris: 70, n. 2.
Robert, L. (1968), Opera Minora Selecta. Vol. 2. Amsterdam: 1102.
Robert, L. (1973), Opera Minora Selecta. Vol. 4. Amsterdam: 230.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note It is a professional association of sellers.