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Last Updated on 24 Jun 2019

Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1122: he syntechnia ton linourgon

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Caria
iii. Site Aphrodisias

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἡ συντεχνία τῶν λινουργῶν
ii. Full name (transliterated) he syntechnia ton linourgon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 1 - 200 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Reynolds, J.M. (1995) "The Linen-Market of Aphrodisias in Caria", in F.E.Koenig - S.Rebetez (edd.), Arculiana. Recueil d’hommages offerts à Hans Bögli, Avenches, 523-528.
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Small marble stele with male portrait bust in releif. Inscrition on both sides of the head.
ii. Source(s) provenance Reused in southern city wall.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The man who is commissioned the inscription and who bust is portrayed on the relief (but whose name was apparently erased) greets the guild-association and other passersby. His title was ἐνποριάρχης, the supervisor of the local market. He may thus have had an authoritative connection with the guild.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The name of the association or a another sort of syntechnia is perhaps to be restored in Reinach (1906) REG 19: 287-88 no. 186(2).
iii. Bibliography Cf. SEG 45, 1505.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The professional character and the activities of the association ensures its private nature.