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I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i.	Full name (original language)	οἱ μύσται Ἀπόλλωνος Πλευρενοῦ (SEG 32: 1237, ll. 3-4)
ii.	Full name (transliterated)	hoi mystai Apollonos Pleurenou

III. DATE

i.

Date(s)

ii - i BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii.

Name elements

Cultic:	the term mystai has cultic implication
Theophoric:	Apollon Pleurenos

V. SOURCES

i.	Source(s)	SEG 32: 1237 (ii BC) de Hoz 1999: 5.26a (ii BC) de Hoz 1999: 5.26b (i BC)
	Note	See also: SEG 32: 1237: de Hoz 1999: 5.26
i.a.	Source type(s)	Epigraphic source(s)
i.b.	Document(s) typology & language/script	de Hoz 1999: 5.26: honorific inscription; 5.26a: cult command; 5.26b: Ex voto. Greek.
i.c.	Physical format(s)	Stele with pediment; de Hoz 1999: 5.26a with representation of an olive branch on the pediment.
ii.	Source(s) provenance	Kemerdamlari (Sardeis) de Hoz 1999: 5.26a and b now in Bergama Museum

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii.

References to buildings/objects

Reference to a sanctuary and to a stele (de Hoz 1999: 5.26a)

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii.	Leadership	The priest of the cult (attested in all three inscription) is probably a member of the association and has the leadership. The priestship was probably hereditary, since all attested cases have Kadoas either as name or as patronym.
iii.	Members	mystai
ix.	Privileges	The mystai and the priest had the privilege of having their names inscribed on a marble stele (de Hoz 1999: 5.26a)

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iii.

Income

In SEG 32: 1237, ll. 5-6 (de Hoz 1999: 5.26) an ἐπὶ ἱερῶν προσόδων, epi hieron prosodon (person responsible for the sacred revenues) is attested. He was probably a royal official of the Attalids at Pergamon. Cf. Malay and Nalbantoglu 1996: 79.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i.	Number	de Hoz 1999: 5.26: at least 18 mystai and the priest (?) de Hoz 1999: 5.26a: at least two mystai besides the priest de Hoz 1999: 5.26b: at least 37 mystai besides the priest
ii.	Gender	Men
	Note	There is no woman attested in any of the three inscriptions.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii.	Worship	de Hoz 1999: 5.26b is an ex-voto.
	Deities worshipped	Apollon Pleurenos
iv.	Honours/Other activities	SEG 32: 1237 (de Hoz 1999: 5.26) is an honorific inscription to the ἐπὶ ἱερῶν προσόδων, epi hieron prosodon (responsible for the sacred revenues) for being nice and good to the association.

XI. INTERACTION

ii.

Interaction abroad

The ἀρχιερεύς (archiereus) of the cult (de Hoz 1999: 5.26, 5.26a) was probably the chief priest of the royal cult of the Attalids.
The οἰκονόμος (οikonomos) attested in de Hoz 1999: 5.26a, l. 14, was probably a royal official responsible for the royal land as well as for the sanctuaries.
Both offices, unparalleled for the Attalid period, were probably adopted by the Attalids from the Seleucid administration. In the 2nd century B.C. the sanctuary of Apollon Pleurenos seems to have been under the direct control of the royal administration. Cf. Malay and Nalbantoglu 1996: 78-9.

XII. NOTES