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Last Updated on 09 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 875: phratra

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Lydia
iii. Site Mountain region between Attaleia, Thyateira and Iulia Gordos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) φράτρα (TAM V.1 806, l. 5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) phratra

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Kinship-related:This association is originally kinship-related, though some cultic or professional associations seems to be called phratra in Roman imperial Lydia. There is no information on the character of this concrete phratra.
iii. Descriptive terms phratra

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.1 806 (ii AD)
Online Resources TAM V.1 806
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscription dedicated to a man by the phratra and the speira to which he belonged, and by his family. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble stele
ii. Source(s) provenance Inserted in a fountain in the village of Yegenoba

VII. ORGANIZATION

viii. Obligations The association probably has some sort of funerary obligation towards its members.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

v. Relations The members are possibly related by kinship. Cf. Buresch 1898: 130.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Buresch, K. (1898), Aus Lydien: epigraphisch-geographische Reisefrüchte. Leibzig.
Herrmann, P. (1962), Ergebnisse einer Reise in Nordostlydien, (Denkschriften Akad. Wien Band 80) Wien: 42f., n. 157.
de Hoz, M.-P. (1999), Die Lydischen Kulte im Lichte der griechischen Inschriften. Bonn, no. 15.19.
Keil, J., and von Premerstein, A. (1911), Bericht über eine zweite Reise in Lydien ausgeführt 1908, (Denkschriften Akad. Wien Band 54.2). Wien: 147.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note If it is a cult or professional association it is probably private, though it may be a public kinship association.