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I. LOCATION

i.	Geographical area	Western Asia Minor
ii.	Region	Lydia
iii.	Site	Territory between Gölde, Menye and the river Hermos

II. NAME

i.	Full name (original language)	ἱερὸς δοῦμος (TAM V.1 483a, l. 5)
ii.	Full name (transliterated)	hieros doumos

III. DATE

i.

Date(s)

i - iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

i.

Name in other forms

Though it is probable, it is not completely sure if the term συμβιώτης, symbiotes, (l. 21-2) refers to
the membership of the hieros doumos, also known as συμβίωσις, symbiosis, (cf. TAM V.1 536, 537), or
of a different association.

ii.

Name elements

Other:

hieros

The name doumos alone doesn't mean more than assembly or council, though in some instances it is defined as hieros, sacred (see XII.i Comments).

iii.

Descriptive terms

doumos

V. SOURCES

i.	Source(s)	TAM V.1 483a (i-iii AD)
	Note	SEG 28: 899
	Online Resources	TAM V.1 483a
i.a.	Source type(s)	Epigraphic source(s)
i.b.	Document(s) typology & language/script	Honorary inscription post mortem to a man by his family and members of one or more associations. Greek.
i.c.	Physical format(s)	Stele
ii.	Source(s) provenance	Ayazviran

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv.

Officials

The ἱερεύς, hiereus, ‘priest’ (mentioned in TAM V.1 483a ll. 15-16) also, or maybe previously ἱερόδουλος, hierodoulos, ‘sacred slave’ who honors his συνιερόδουλος, synierodoulos, (TAM V.1 483a ll. 16-17) may be an official of the association, as well as the hierodoulos, though there is no confirmation of it.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i.

Treasury/Funds

The hieros doumos honors a person with a gold crown

X. ACTIVITIES

iii.	Worship	If the association is a cultic one, which is possible, it is related to the worship of a god, but there is no indication about it.
iv.	Honours/Other activities	The epigraphic evidence attests the honor post mortem by the association to a man, whose membership in it is not explicit.

XII. NOTES

i.	Comments	The word hieros doumos is attested mainly in Lydian-Phrygian Asia Minor, but there are also evidences from Thessaloniki and the Balkans, cf. Lajtar 1992: 211f. (= IG X2, 860). For the meaning and etymology of the term cf. Buresch 1898: 59-60, 62ff. (He thinks the origin of the name is Lydian); Neumann, G. (1988), Sitzungsberichte der Öst. Ak. d. Wiss . Wien, 12f. (He reconstructs the Phrygian word doumetas as ‘member of the doumos , i.e. the counsil of men in a village’; Voutiras 1992: 88-90 with further references; BE 1992: 202, 314. For the possibility of hieros doumos meaning the same as symbiosis cf. TAM V.1 536, 537.
iii.	Bibliography	Buresch, K. (1898), Aus Lydien: epigraphisch-geographische Reisefrüchte. Leibzig. Petzl, G. (1978), in SRKK: Studien zur Religion und Kultur Kleinasiens. Festschrift für Fr. K. Dörner zum 65 Geburtstag. (EPRO 66). Leiden, pp. 746ff., no. 1, ph. 177. de Hoz, M.-P. (1999), Die Lydischen Kulte im Lichte der griechischen Inschriften. Bonn, no. 63.30. Łajtar, A. (1992), ‘Ein zweiter Beleg fur δοῦμος in Thessalonike’ ZPE 94: 211-2. Voutiras, E (1992), ‘Berufs- und Kultverein: Ein δουμοϲ in Thessalonike’, ZPE 90: 87-96.

XIII. EVALUATION

i.	Private association	Possible
	Note	The probability that the hieros doumos is related to a cult in some instances makes its private character possible. Nevertheless, the name of the association is stated only as doumos, like in TAM V.1 179 and 536 (here: hieros doumos), which makes it possible that the association was a public one (cf. the interpretation of Neumann) that worships different gods from its locality.

CAPInv. 877: hieros doumos