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Last Updated on 08 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 409: artopoioi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἀρτοποιοί (I.Manisa 125, no. 431, ll. 1-2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) artopoioi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) iv AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:Bakers

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Manisa 125, no. 431 (iv AD)
Note See also:
Dittmann-Schöne III.4.2
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary propriety inscription. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble plaque
ii. Source(s) provenance Sardeis

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects Reference to a common grave for the bakers, the wheat sellers and the other 'associations'.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ix. Privileges The members (or some members) of the association probably had the privilege of using the common grave of this association and other (related?) guilds.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

ii. Realty The association owns, together with other associations, a grave.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The association has probably some sort of funerary activities, maybe together with the other associations that own the same grave.
On funerary activities of professional associations cf. van Nijf 1997: 38-69.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The association has interaction with the association of wheatsellers and "the others", since they own a common grave.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 205.
Malay, H. (1994), Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum. Ergänzungsbände zu den Tituli Asiae Minoris 19. Vienna: 125, no. 431.
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 craftmanship association.