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Last Updated on 08 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 404: he synergasia ton pilopoion

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἡ συνεργασία τῶν πιλοποιῶν (SEG 29: 1195, ll. 2-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) he synergasia ton pilopoion

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 194 / 195 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:Feltmakers
iii. Descriptive terms συνεργασία, synergasia
Note synergasia: SEG 29: 1195, ll. 2-3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 29: 1195 (194/5 AD)
Note See also:
Dittmann-Schöne III.3.19
Online Resources SEG 29: 1195
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscription dedicated by the association to one of its members (φίλος, philos, l. 4). Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble stele with pediment
ii. Source(s) provenance Saittai

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members The members were perhaps usualy called φίλοι (philoi, "friends"), since in SEG 29: 1195 the guild erects the epitaph for its "friend". Cf. Herrmann 1962: 17, no. 58; Bakir-Barthel and Müller 1979: 171, no. 29.
viii. Obligations The association probably had some funerary obligations towards its members.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The association must have funds in order to bury or erect funerary inscriptions to its members.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note Only two members are attested, both men, one 27 years old, the other 47.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities Only funerary activity is attested. On funerary activities of professional associations cf. van Nijf 1997: 38-69.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Bakir-Barthel, S., and Müller, H. (1979), ‘Inschriften aus der umgebung von Saittai, (II)’, ZPE 36: 163-94, esp. 171-3, no. 29 and no. 31.
Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 202.
Herrmann, P. (1962), Ergebnisse einer Reise in Nordostlydien. Vienna: 17, no. 58.
van Nijf, O. (1997), The civic world of professional associations in the Roman East. Amsterdam: 38-69.

XIII. EVALUATION

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