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Last Updated on 20 May 2019

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 1474: synergasia plethous taurinadon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) συνεργασία πλήθους ταυρινάδων (I.Eph(esos) 2080, ll. 4-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) synergasia plethous taurinadon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 200 (?) - 235 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:taurinadeis
iii. Descriptive terms συνεργασία, synergasia
πλῆθος, plethos
Note synergasia: I.Eph(esos) 2080, ll. 4-5
plethos: I.Eph(esos) 2080, l. 5

The construction with two corporate designations (the synergasia of the plethos of the taurinadeis) is unusual.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Eph(esos) 2080 (200 (?) - 235 (?) AD)
I.Eph(esos) 2081 (200 (?) - 235 (?) AD)
Note See also:
I.Eph(esos) 2080:
Dittmann-Schöne II.1.11
I.Eph(esos) 2081:
Dittmann-Schöne II.1.12
Online Resources I.Eph(esos) 2080
I.Eph(esos) 2081
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script I.Eph(esos) 2080 records a donation of four diastyla (l. 7), made to the association by M. Fulvius Publicianus Nikephoros. I.Eph(esos) 2081 was apparently the topos-inscription designating the respective diastyla (l. 2).
In greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Both inscriptions are written on marble pillars.
ii. Source(s) provenance Both inscriptions were found in the theatre, but the content indicates that they originally came from a columned street.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects Διάστυλα, diastyla: Places between the columns of a hall, where professional associations could work and sell their products. The association had four of them.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

ii. Realty The association received (as did 7 other professional associations) διάστυλα, diastyla in a columned hall built (or rather renovated) by the asiarches and prytanis M. Fulvius Publicianus Nikephoros (on the location in a 'high traffic area', cf. Kalinowski 2002: 125-7).

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 136.
Kalinowski, A. (2002), ‘The Vedii Antonini: Aspects of Patronage and Benefaction in Second-Century Ephesos’, Phoenix 56: 109-49.
Royer, A. (2005), Associations professionnelles et groupes de gens de métier dans les cités grecques d'Asie Mineure à l'époque impériale (Ier - Ve siècles ap. J.-C.). Lyon: 106-8.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Professional associations in the 2nd/3rd century were often very close to the official civic institutions, but they probably remained essentially private associations.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain