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Author: Andreas Victor Walser

CAPInv. 1000: hoi temenizontes toi te Apolloni kai Dii kai Aphroditei

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Ionia
iii. Site Miletus

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ τεμενίζοντες τῶι τε Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ Διὶ κα[ὶ] Ἀφροδίτηι (Milet VI.2 797 ll. 5-7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi temenizontes toi te Apolloni kai Dii kai Aphroditei

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii BC - i

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:temenizontes
Theophoric:Apollon
Zeus
Aphrodite

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Milet VI.2 797
Note Herrmann 1980: 224-225 a); Ascough et al. 2012: no. 177.
Online Resources Herrmann 1980: 224-225 a)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script List of members in Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Two joining fragments of a large marble block (possibly 'Wandquader')
ii. Source(s) provenance Found north or west of the bouleuterion

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members οἱ τεμενίζοντες, hoi temenizontes

In all the other lists recording the members of an association of Temenitai from Miletus designate them with the substantive Τεμεν(ε)ῖται, Temen(e)itai. Only in this text, the verbal form is used.
iv. Officials χρυσονόμος, chrysonomos
γραμματεύς, grammateus

The chrysonomos was the treasurer, the grammateus the secretary of the association. Cf. Herrmann 1980: 226-227 with n. 9.

If they were eponymous officials (cf. next field), they must have administered their office for a year.
Eponymous officials Both the chrysonomos and the grammateus are mentioned in the praescript after the milesian στεφανήφορος, stephanephoros, the eponymous of the city. Therefore, they seem to be the eponymous officials of the association.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds Since the chrysonomos was the treasurer of the association, it must have had some kind of treasury.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number 10, including the 2 officials
ii. Gender Men
iii. Age Adults
iv. Status The civic status of the members is not specified. However, since other lists of Temenitai explicitly identify foreigners with their ethnicon, in this case all members seem to be citizens of Miletus.
v. Relations No family relations are mentioned in the list of members. However, it is likely that Oiax, s. of Hekatomnos, and Hekataios, s. of Hekatomnos, listed one after the other in ll. 14-15 are brothers.

X. ACTIVITIES

ii. Meetings and events No activities are described in the source. However, it is to be expected that members, like those of all other milesian associations of Temnitai, held meetings in the form of banquets.
iii. Worship The designation of the members as hoi temnizontes and the gods listed in its name demonstrate the association's religious character.

It is not clear how exactly the association was involved in the cult of these gods. A. Rehm (ad I.Didyma 486) saw in the temenizontes a "Verein zur Errichtung einer Kultstätte". It seems, however, likely that the members of the association were not (or not only) involved in the establishment of a temenos but rather in its maintenance in the cultic service more generally.
Deities worshipped Apollon
Zeus
Aphrodite

XII. NOTES

i. Comments On groups of temenizontes, Temenitai in Miletus in general cf. CAPInv. 998.
iii. Bibliography Ascough, S., Harland, Ph.A., and Kloppenborg, J.S. (2012), Associations in the Greco-Roman World. A Sourcebook. Waco.
Herrmann, P. (1980), 'Urkunden milesischer Temenitai', MDAI(I) 30: 223-239.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology, the activity and the internal organisation of the association suggests a private association.