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Author: Andreas Victor Walser

CAPInv. 1020: 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.2 803 ll. 4-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Temeneitai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 55 (?) - 48 (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Topographical:temeneitai

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Milet VI.2 802
Note Herrmann 1980: 234-235 e)
Online Resources Herrmann 1980: 234-235 e)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Fragment of an inscription probably recording two separate short texts of unknown nature. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Fragment of a marble stele (or ashlar)

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members Τεμενεῖται, Temeneitai
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 most probably 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.
ii. Realty The inscription records a purchase, presumably of a plot of land (Milet VI.2 802 ll. 10-11: ἠγοράσθη{ι} ὁ̣ [τόπος?], egorasthe{i} ho [topos?] (cf. I.Didyma 486 l. 25)).

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The first part of the inscription records that the chrysonomos "raised" something (Milet VI.2 802 ll. 2-3: [--- χ]ρυσονομῶν --- ε̣ίου ἀνεστησεν τὴν ---, [---ch]rysonomon --- eiou anesthesen ten ---). This could refer to the construction of a building by the association (cf. Milet VI.2 799).

The second part of the inscription seems to describe the purchase of a plot of land, but it is not clear for what purpose.

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.