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Author: Stella Skaltsa

CAPInv. 924: eutheroi

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Mysia
iii. Site Pergamon

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) εὔθηροι (MDAI[A] 33 [1908]: 409 no. 42, l. 3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) eutheroi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) i (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Status-related:eutheros - LSJ9 s.v. εὔθηρος:
- successful in hunting
- club of sportsmen

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) MDAI(A) 33 (1908): 409 no. 42
Online Resources MDAI[A] 33 [1908]: 409 no. 42
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorary inscription in Greek. Partly preserved. The honorary body is fully restored (demos). Only part of the honorand's patronymic is preserved (...]odorou).
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble block, broken on the left, probably of a base. Traces for the insertion of a plinth on top.
H. 21.5 x W. 40 x Th. 36 cm.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in 1907 at the west entrance of the 'Kellerstadion' in the gymnasion at Pergamon.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members eutheroi (l. 3)

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note In the light of the hunting activity as inferred by the name (eutheroi), this group would have consisted of males.
iii. Age Adults
Note The age can only be assumed on the basis of the activity (hunting).

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The term eutheroi can designate successful hunters or can stand for members of a hunting club (Suess 1966: 315).
Due to the mutilated text of the inscription, it is not clear whether the honorand was the leader of the eutheroi, as suggested by the proposed restoration of the text: ἄρξ?αντ]α τῶν εὐθήρων (l. 3), or just a member.
If the past participle arxanta is to be restored before ton eutheron in line 3, then the presence of a leader would point towards the existence of a formal group with some sort of internal organization.
iii. Bibliography Suess, W. (1966), 'Der ältere Dionys als Tragiker', RhM 109: 209-318.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note Besides the name (eutheroi) that implies a past-time activity (hunting) shared by those partaking in it, an identification of the eutheroi with a formally organized and durable group rests on shaky grounds.