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I. LOCATION

i.	Geographical area	Western Asia Minor
ii.	Region	Bithynia
iii.	Site	Nikomedeia

II. NAME

i.	Full name (original language)	[συγγ]ένε[ια] Δραδιζανῶν (TAM IV.1 272, l. 7)
ii.	Full name (transliterated)	[syng]ene[ia] Dradizanon

III. DATE

i.

Date(s)

iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii.

Name elements

Topographical:

Dradizanon (?)

iii.

Descriptive terms

συγγένεια, syngeneia

Note

syngeneia: TAM IV.1 272, l. 7

V. SOURCES

i.	Source(s)	TAM IV.1 272 (iii AD)
	Note	See also: Laum 1914: ii 141 no. 203 Fernoux 2004: 540-541
	Online Resources	TAM IV.1 272
i.a.	Source type(s)	Epigraphic source(s)
i.b.	Document(s) typology & language/script	Funerary inscription in Greek of Aurelios Fessthos (Festus).
i.c.	Physical format(s)	Fragment of sarcophagus.
ii.	Source(s) provenance	The inscription was found at Izmit (Nikomedeia).

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iv.

Endowments

In addition to a fine paid to the fiscus and the village of Rakelanoi in case of violation of his tomb, Aurelios Fessthos (Festus) established a posthumous foundation for the performance of a presumably annual festival in his memory (cf. Fernoux 2004: 541). Although the recipient of the foundation was the village of the Rakelanoi, the festival was to be held within the framework of the syngeneia Dradizanon (TAM IV.1 272, ll 5-7: [— — — κ]αὶ κατα{τα}<λ>είπω τῇ κώμῃ <Ῥ>ακηλ<αν>ῶν - - - - - - - | <ἐπὶ τῷ> ποιεῖν αὐτοὺς ἀνά[μ]νη<σ>ίν μου <ἣν> ποιήσουσιν [ἐν] | [τῇ συγγ]ενε[ίᾳ] Δραδιζανῶν, k]ai kata<l>eipo tei komei <Rh>akel<an>on <epi toi> poiein autous ana[m]ne<s>in mou <hen> poiesousin [en tei syng]ene[iai] Dradizanon), in all likelihood a subdivision of the village.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv.

Honours/Other activities

The syggeneia Dradizanon provided the farm, in which a festival in memory of Aurelios Fessthos was organised. An endowment for this purpose had been set up by the man in favour of the village of the Rakelanoi.

XI. INTERACTION

i.

Local interaction

According to Fernoux (2004: 250-251) Aurelios Fessthos was a ‘petit notable’ from Nikomedeia who owned plots of land in village of Rakelanoi. In view of the special role prescribed in his endowment for the syngeneia Dradizanon, the donor may have been a member of this group.

XII. NOTES

i.	Comments	The name of the deceased suggests a date in the 3rd century AD.
iii.	Bibliography	Bibliography Fernoux, H.-L. (2004), Notables et elites des cités de Bithynie aux époques hellénistique et romaine (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.). Essai d’histoire sociale. Lyon Laum, B. (1914), Stiftungen in der griechischen und römischen Antike. Berlin. Poland, F. (1909), Geschichte des griechischen Vereinswesens. Leipzig.

XIII. EVALUATION

i.	Private association	Possible
	Note	On associations defined as syngeneia, see Poland 1909: 88. The syngeneia Dradizanon seems to have been a permanently established group but its private character cannot be demonstrated with certainty. The genitive Dradizanon may derive from a toponym. If so, the group in question was possibly organized in terms of both kinship-relations and common place of inhabitance.

CAPInv. 933: [syng]ene[ia] Dradizanon