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Author: Loredana Cappelletti

CAPInv. 1082: cultores Iovis Heliopolitani Berytenses qui Puteolis consistunt

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Southern Italy with Sicily
ii. Region Campania
iii. Site Pozzuoli (ancient Puteoli)

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) cultores Iovis Heliopolitani Berytenses qui Puteolis consistunt (CIL X 1634, ll. 8-10)
ii. Full name (transliterated) cultores Iovis Heliopolitani Berytenses qui Puteolis consistunt

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 116 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:cultores Iovis Heliopolitani
Ethnic:Berytenses, from Berytos
Geographical:qui Puteolis consistunt
Theophoric:Iupiter Heliopolitanus

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) CIL X 1634 (116 AD)
Note See also: ILS 300
Online Resources TM 535986
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script CIL X 1634 is a Latin dedication to Emperor Trajan made by the cultores Iovis Heliopolitani, who were citizens from Berytus residing in Puteoli.
ii. Source(s) provenance CIL X 1634 from Pozzuoli, found in Naples, now lost.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

i. Archaeological remains Archaeological remains of different buildings and monuments related to the cult of Iupiter Heliopolitanus were found in and outside the city of Pozzuoli, see Camodeca 2006: 272-3.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members Referred to as cultores Iovis Heliopolitani Berytenses qui Puteolis consistunt (CIL X 1634, ll. 8-10).

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status The members of the group were citizens from the Phoenician city of Berytus residing in Puteoli.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The cultores Iovis Heliopolitani Berytenses dedicated an inscription to the Roman Emperor Trajan.

XI. INTERACTION

ii. Interaction abroad The dedication to a Roman Emperor may imply a possible connection between the cultores/Berytenses and the Imperial house or institution.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments For the inscription CIL X 1579 (see CAPInv. 1081) as referring to the same association mentioned in CIL X 1634 see Camodeca 2006: 271-2.
Other Puteolan inscriptions referring to the same cult, but without mention of the association are: Camodeca 2006: 273 (AD 130-180); AE 1901: 169 (AD 101-200); EphEp 8: 359 (AD 201-250); see Tran Tam Tinh 1972: 147-8.
ii. Poland concordance Poland Ε 95a
iii. Bibliography Camodeca, G. (2006), ‘Comunità di peregrini a Puteoli nei primi due secoli dell'impero’, in M.G. Angeli Bertinelli and A. Donati (eds.), Le vie della storia. Migrazioni di popoli, viaggi di individui, circolazioni di idee nel Mediterraneo antico, Atti del II Incontro Internazionale di Storia Antica, Genova, 6-8 ottobre 2004, Roma: 269-87.
Steuernagel, D. (1999), ‘Corporate Identity’. Über Vereins-, Stadt- und Staatskulte im kaiserzeitlichen Puteoli', MDAI(R) 106: 149-87.
Tran Tam Tinh, V. (1972), Le culte des divinités orientales en Campanie. Leiden.
Verboven, K. (2011), ‘Resident Aliens and Translocal Merchant Collegia in the Roman Empire’, in O. Hekster, and T. Kaizer (eds.), Frontiers in the Roman World. Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire, Durham, 16-19 april 2009, Leiden: 335-48.
Waltzing, J.P. (1895-1900), Étude historique sur les corporations professionnelles chez les Romains depuis les origines jusqu'à la chute de l'Empire d'Occident. I-IV, Louvain.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note see Waltzing 1895: vol. I, 55.