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Last Updated on 16 May 2019

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 1147: hoi synanoubiastai

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ συνανουβιασταί (I.Smyrna 765, l. 6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi synanoubiastai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 305 - 150 (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Theophoric:synanoubiastai

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Smyrna 765 (305 - 150 (?) BC)
Note See also:
GRA II 136

It is not certain that the two parts really belong to the same inscription.
Online Resources I.Smyrna 765
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedicatory inscription with list of members, greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Column of blue marble, broken in two pieces
ii. Source(s) provenance Piece a: Mt. Pagus; Piece b: Agora.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects Something - presumably a building - is dedicated to Queen Stratonike.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership Before the name of the group, Herakleitos son of Archigenes is mentioned. He was likely the leader of the anoubiastai, who may in this instance be called "(his) synanoubiastai" in order to make this clear.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number Fragment a contains 18 names plus Herakleitos, fragment b contains 9 names. If fragment b does indeed belong to fragment a, some lines are missing. The group thus consisted of ca. 30 men, possibly more.
ii. Gender Men
iv. Status Some names point to foreign (Egpytian, Babylonian) origins, others are purely Greek.

X. ACTIVITIES

Deities worshipped Anoubis

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The inscription dates from the time of Queen Stratonike, who could be the wife of Seleukos I/Antiochos I or of Eumenes II/Attalos II. As the first option would lead to an unusually early dating for an association in this region, the second seems more likely (Magie 1953: 174 does not even mention the first option). The terminus post quem would then be 188 BC (not 197 as in Harland 2014: 298); she may have died around 150 BC.
ii. Poland concordance Poland B 345
iii. Bibliography Harland, P.A. (2014), Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentaries. II. North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor. Berlin, Boston. 298-302.
Magie, D. (1953), ‘Egpytian Deities in Asia Minor in Inscriptions and on Coins’, AJA 57: 163-87.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The gathering of money, the leadership of Herakleitos and the list of dedicators (= members) strongly speak in favor of a private association.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain