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Last Updated on 09 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 420: [hoi Her]akleotai

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Lydia
iii. Site Silandos or Tabala

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [οἱ Ἡρ]α̣κ̣λ̣εῶται (SEG 35: 1264, l. 3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) [hoi Her]akleotai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 151 / 152 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Theophoric:Heracles
iii. Descriptive terms συμβίωσις, symbiosis; cf. συνβι[ωτὴν], symbi[oten] (SEG 35: 1264, ll. 4-5)

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 35: 1264 (151/2 AD)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscription for a member of the association. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Stele with pediment and decoration of a wreath
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in the village of Sehitli, near the ancient site of Thermai Theseos that belonged to the territory of Silandos or more probably of Tabala (cf. Naour (1985): 68).

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members The members are called symbiotai. Cf. συνβι[ωτὴν], symbioten (SEG 35: 1264, ll. 4-5)
viii. Obligations Since the evidence for the association is a funerary inscription for one of its members, it is possible that the association had funerary obligations towards its members.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The association must have funds in order to erect funerary inscriptions such as this one.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The association probably had funerary activities since it erected a funerary inscription for one of its members.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography De Hoz, M.-P. (1999), Die Lydischen Kulte im Lichte der griechischen Inschriften. Bonn, no. 22.11.
Naour, Chr. (1985), ‘Nouveaux documents du Moyen Hermos’, An.Ép. 5: 71, no. 24, Taf. 7.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note There is too scarce information on the association. It could be a private cult association, but also a semi public gymnasion club like the ones attested in Thyateira or Daldis.