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Last Updated on 06 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1373: synodos

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
ii. Nome Arsinoites (00)
iii. Site Hephaistias

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) σύνοδος (P.Batav. 12, l. 5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) synodos

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 214 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος synodos
Note synodos: P.Batav. 12, l. 5

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Batav. 12 (30 Jul AD 214)
Online Resources P.Batav. 12
TM 11869
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Receipt for the φόρος φυτῶν, in Greek. On the φόρος φυτών, see Wallace 1938: 71.
i.c. Physical format(s) papyrus

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership Dioskοros, προεστώς proestos (l. 5).

IX. MEMBERSHIP

vi. Proper names and physical features Dioskoros

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Wallace, S.L. (1938), Taxation in Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian, Oxford.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The identification of Dioskoros as a proestos that seems to act on behalf of the synodos suggests that the group was an association. The identity of the group is unclear - whether it was a group of craftsmen, merchants, farmers, tenants, etc.