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Last Updated on 14 Mar 2017

Author: Alexandru Avram

CAPInv. 1313: thiasitai

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Black Sea Region
ii. Region North coast of the Black Sea
iii. Site Gorgippia

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιασῖται (CIRB 1133, l. 3; SEG 36: 794, l. 5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasitai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 173 - 211 AD

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) CIRB 1133 (AD 173-211, if not strictly AD 191 [Jajlenko 2010: 613]).
SEG 36: 704 (l. ii - e. iii AD).
Online Resources CIRB 1133
SEG 36: 704
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Fragmentary Greek records of an association of unknown nature.
i.c. Physical format(s) CIRB 1133: three not joining fragments of a marble stele.
SEG 36: 704: small fragment of a marble stele.
ii. Source(s) provenance Gorgippia

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership συναγωγός, synagogos (CIRB 1133, l. 4; SEG 36: 794, l. 5).

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number More than 11, as rests of at least 11 names (highly probably with patronymics) of members are preserved on the fragments of CIRB 1133. SEG 36: 794 preserves only the preamble.
ii. Gender Men
Note The preserved names are male names.
iii. Age Adults

XII. NOTES

i. Comments V.P. Jajlenko (2010: 613) remarks the letter H at the place where the date of CIRB 1133 is expected: therefore, he restores [υπ]η, [yp]e = 488 year of the Bosporan era = AD 191.
Both documents mention a συναγωγός, synagogos, at the head of the association (contrary to CAPInv. 1310, where we have a ἱερεύς, hiereus, and a συναγωγός, synagogos). Therefore, we consider them two different associations.
iii. Bibliography Boltunova, A.I. (1986), ‘Nadpisi Gorgippii iz nakhodok 1971-1981 gg. [Inscriptions from Gorgippia from the Finds of the Years 1971-1981]’, VDI 1: 49 no. 4.
Jajlenko, V.P. (2010): Tysjacheletnij Bosporskij Rejkh [A Thousand Year Bosporan Reich (sic)]. Moscow: 612-3.
Zavojkina, N.V. (2012), Bosporskie fiasy: mezhdu polisom i monarkhiej [Bosporan Thiasoi: Between Polis and Monarchy]. Moscow: 85-6.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology employed points to a private association.