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Last Updated on 23 Mar 2017

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 609: hoi threskeuontes

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ θρησκεύοντες (IGR III 1143, ll. 3-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi threskeuontes

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 175 / 176 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:threskeuontes

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IGR III 1143 (AD 175/6)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek dedicatory inscription

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The threskeuontes appear together with Σαυρῶν τὸ κοινόν, Sauron to koinon (l. 2), the community of Saura, as builders of a structure dedicated to the "god of Maleichathos" (in the Dative, so one cannot construe it with θρησκεύω, threskeuo). Hackl et al. speculate that the reference is to Ba'alshamin, whose temple in Seeia was built by an apparently rather famous person named Malikat/Maleichathos.
Deities worshipped Theos Maleichathou, "the god of Maleichathos".

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Hackl, U., Jenni, H., and Schneider, Chr. (2003), Quellen zur Geschichte der Nabatäer. Textsammlung mit Übersetzung und Kommentar. Fribourg, Göttingen: 146-7.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The group acts together with the civic authorities, but this does not exclude the possibility that it is a private association. Threskeuontes does not necessarily refer to a permanent organization, but it makes most sense here, because unorganized threskeuontes could have been subsumed under the Sauron koinon.