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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1128: [Aphrode]isiastan Soteriastan [koinon]

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Caria (Rhodian Peraia)
iii. Site Tymnos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [Ἀφροδε]ισιαστᾶν Σωτηριαστᾶν [κοινόν] (Bresson, Recueil Pérée 97 l. 2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) [Aphrode]isiastan Soteriastan [koinon]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 200 - 50 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:Aphrodisiastai: worshippers of Aphrodite
Soteriastai: cultic epithet, often in relation to the cult of Zeus Soter, which is well attested in the Rhodian State, i.e. Lindos, see CAPInv. 77.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Bresson, Recueil Pérée 97 (300-50 BC)
Note I.Rhod.Per. 204 (note the differences between the two editions with regard to the restoration of lines 3-4).
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek. Dedication by a foreigner from Patara to Apollo Dalios.
i.c. Physical format(s) Limestone block.
ii. Source(s) provenance Tymnos (Bozburun).

VII. ORGANIZATION

ix. Privileges The individual from Patara, member of the association, was exempted from all dues (l. 4, [ateleia pant]on). It should be noted that the term ateleia is fully restored.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iii. Income The exemption from dues (ateleia) bestowed to the foreigner from Patara suggests that membership of the association incurred some dues; see section VII.ix ( note that the term ateleia is fully restored).

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status The honoree has the ethnic Πατ̣αρεὺς (from Patara). Membership was apparently extended to foreigners.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The consecration is made to Apollo Dalios, whose civic cult is attested in Kamiros (Tit.Cam. 50, l. 25; Tit.Cam. 90, col. I, l. 28). The Rhodian deme of Tymnos, where the inscription was found, is a deme of Kamiros and this inscription attests therefore to the cult of Apollo Dalios outside the physical confines of the city of Kamiros. It is not entirely clear, however, whether the association itself worshipped Apollo Dalios. Ignoring these basic facts, Boyxen thinks of an importation of the Delian Apollo, set up in the grounds of the association' sanctuary (Boyxen 2018, 258-9).
Deities worshipped Apollo Dalios
iv. Honours/Other activities The association honoured the individual from Patara with a foliate crown, a gold crown and ateleia (ll. 3-4).

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Boyxen, B. (2018), Fremde in der hellenistischen Polis Rhodos
Zwischen Nähe und Distanz
, (Klio Suppl. 29), Berlin-Boston.
Bresson, A. (1991), Recueil des Inscription de la Pérée rhodienne (Pérée intégrée), Paris.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The composite name of the association, consisting of cultic elements, together with the obligations of members to pay dues, renders it certain that this group constituted a private association.