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Author: Andreas Victor Walser

CAPInv. 1004: Temeneitai

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Τεμενεῖται (Milet VI.2 801)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Temeneitai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 22 / 21 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Topographical:Temeneitai

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Milet VI.2 801
Note Herrmann 1980: 233-234 d)
Online Resources Herrmann 1980: 233-234 d)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script List of members (?) Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Fragment of a marble plate
ii. Source(s) provenance In the Roman baths in the area of the Eumenes-gymnasium west of the stadium.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members Τεμενεῖται, Temeneitai
iv. Officials γραμματεύς, grammateus

The function of the grammateus was possibly further specified with the reference to a god's temenos (Milet VI.2 801 ll. 3-4: [γραμματ]εύοντος δε τ[οῦ ... ....] τέμενους, [grammat]euontos de t[ou ... ....] temenous).

No χρυσονόμος, chrysonomos, – usually mentioned together with the grammateus – is recorded in this case.
Eponymous officials The grammateus is mentioned in the praescript after the milesian στεφανήφορος, stephanephoros, the eponymous of the city. He seems to be an eponymous officials of the association.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

ii. Realty The text mentions a temenos but the context is fragmentary.

X. ACTIVITIES

ii. Meetings and events The inscriptions mentions a meeting of the members (οἵδε συνήχθησαν Τεμενεῖται, hoide synechthesan Temeneitai). This formula suggest a meeting in the form of a banquet (Herrmann, Milet VI.2: p. 93 with reference to Ph. Gauthier, BE 1991, 426).
iii. Worship The designation of the members as Temeneitai demonstrates the association's religious character.

It is not clear how exactly the association was involved in the cult. Because of the designation temeneitai one expects a specific function in relation to a gods' temenos. A temenos is also mentioned in the text. It seems likely that the association was not (or not only) involved in the establishment of the temenos but rather in its maintenance in the cultic service more generally.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The inscription does not specify the name of the association but just uses the generic term Τεμενεῖται, Temeneitai, without the usual reference to certain gods. The association could therefore be identical with one of the other milesian associations of Τεμεν(ε)ῖται, Temen(e)itai, or τεμενίζοντες, temenizontes.

On groups of temenizontes, Temenitai in Miletus in general cf. CAPInv. 998.
iii. Bibliography Herrmann, P. (1980), 'Urkunden milesischer Temenitai', MDAI(I) 30: 223-239.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology employed (temeneitai) and the religious character indicates a private association.