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Last Updated on 09 Jul 2018

Author: Paschalis Paschidis

CAPInv. 744: U-MAC-006

Hide this section I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Macedonia
ii. Region Mygdonia
iii. Site Thessalonike

Hide this section II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-MAC-006

Hide this section III. DATE

i. Date(s) 218 / 219 AD

Hide this section V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG X.2.1 Suppl. 1058 (AD 218/9)
Note Other editions: SEG 56: 753
Online Resources IG X.2.1 Suppl. 1058
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek dedication
i.c. Physical format(s) Stele, undecorated.
ii. Source(s) provenance Unknown.

Hide this section VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The stele commemorates the dedication by the chief officials of this Dionysiac association of a βωμός, bomos, and a μάγαρον, magaron (ll. 6-7). On the latter term, which may mean anything from a small artificial cavity for sacrifices to a building used as the god's sanctum, see the full discussion of Nigdelis 2006: 131-3.

Hide this section VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Mousaios (l. 1), whose name was inscribed in the genitive along with the god's name, may have been the founder of the cult and the association; see Nigdelis 2006: 129-30 with parallels.
Gender Male
iv. Officials The altar and the magaron were dedicated by an ἀρχιμαινάς, archimainas (l. 4), “chief-maenad” and a μαγαρεύς, magareus (l. 5), “supervisor of the magaron”.

Hide this section IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Women
Note The two officials (and only members of the association that we know of) were a man and a woman.

Hide this section X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The altar dedicated to Dionysos Horophoros by the two officials was obviously used in sacrifices. The god's cult epithet is a hapax legomenon. Nigdelis 2006: 130-1 interprets it as a reference to the seasons.
Deities worshipped Dionysos Horophoros

Hide this section XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Nigdelis, P. M. (2006), Επιγραφικά Θεσσαλονίκεια. Συμβολή στην πολιτική και κοινωνική ιστορία της αρχαίας Θεσσαλονίκης. Thessaloniki: 129-34 no. 2.

Hide this section XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The novel character of the cult and of the god's attributes and the possible mention of the founder assure the private nature of the cult and the association.