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Last Updated on 09 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 1685: symbiosis of [---]

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Lydia
iii. Site Hypaipa

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) συμβίωσις [---] (I.Eph(esos) 3818, l. 1)
ii. Full name (transliterated) symbiosis of [---]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) iii - iv AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

iii. Descriptive terms συμβίωσις, symbiosis
Note symbiosis: I.Eph(esos) 3818, l. 1


symbiosis is a descriptive name. The rest of the name is not preserved.

In the readable part of the inscription there is mention of a physician, but there is no proof that the association is a physician's association, though they are known in nearby Ephesos (I.Eph(esos) 622, 719, 1038, 1161-1163, 1167, 3055).

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Eph(esos) 3818 (iii - iv AD)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Identification of the place of the association. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble plate
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in Hypaipa, actual Ödemisch, in a house of the Jasy Mahalle quarter.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The inscription indicates a τόπος, topos (place), probably the building or site of the association.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members The inscription is very damaged and only part of it readable, but there is mention of a physician that could be a member of the association.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Keil, J., and von Premerstein, A. (1914), Bericht über eine dritte Reise in Lydien ausgeführt 1911, (Denkschriften Akad. Wien Band 54.2). Vienna.
Samama, É. (2003), Les médecins dans le monde grec: Sources épigraphiques sur la naissance d'un corps médical. Geneva: no. 242.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Most symbioseis in Lydia are private associations. For other symbioseis in Lydia cf.
CAPInv. 907 and CAPInv. 1663