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Last Updated on 23 Mar 2017

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 594: kerameis

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area The Near East and Beyond
ii. Region Arabia
iii. Site Gerasa

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κεραμεῖς (I.Gerasa 79, ll. 1-2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) kerameis

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 150 - 250 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:kerameis

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Gerasa 79 (AD 150-250)
Note See also: SEG 7: 879
Online Resources I.Gerasa 79 and AGRW ID 22950
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek building inscription (?)
i.c. Physical format(s) Inscription on column
ii. Source(s) provenance Macellum of Gerasa

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The kerameis must have financed the erection of the column; no other information is known.
iii. Bibliography Uscatescu, A., and Martín-Bueno, M. (1997), ‘The Macellum of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan): From a Market Place to an Industrial Area’, BASO 307: 67-88, esp. 71-2.
Welles, C.B. (1938), ‘The Inscriptions’, in C.H. Kraeling (ed.), Gerasa. City of the Decapolis, New Haven: 353-494.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Professional associations in the 2nd/3rd century AD were often very close to the official civic institutions, but they probably remained essentially private associations.