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Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 1803: hoi apo tes oikoumenes per[i ton] Dionyson kai autokratora Kaisara T. [Ailion] Hadrianon Antoneinon Sebaston Eu[sebe] techneitai hieroneikai stephaneita[i kai] hoi touton synagonistai

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς οἰκουμένης περ[ὶ τὸν] Διόνυσον καὶ αὐτοκράτορα Καίσαρα Τ. [Αἴλιον] Ἁδριανὸν Ἀντωνεῖνον Σεβαστὸν Εὐ[σεβῆ] τεχνεῖται ἱερονεῖκαι στεφανείτα[ι καὶ] οἱ τούτων συναγωνισταί (I.Eph(esos) 22, ll. 35-39)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi apo tes oikoumenes per[i ton] Dionyson kai autokratora Kaisara T. [Ailion] Hadrianon Antoneinon Sebaston Eu[sebe] techneitai hieroneikai stephaneita[i kai] hoi touton synagonistai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 97 - 161 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Geographical:oikoumene
Personal:Emperor Hadrian
Professional:techneitai
Status-related:hieroneikai designates winners of sacred contests
Theophoric:Dionysos
iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος, synodos
Note synodos: I.Eph(esos) 22, l. 14; I.Eph(esos) 1122, l. 9; I.Eph(esos) 1615, l. 16

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Eph(esos) 22 (97 - 161 AD)
I.Eph(esos) 1122 (97 - 161 AD)
I.Eph(esos) 1615 (97 - 161 AD)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script I.Eph(esos) 22 is an honorary decree; I.Eph(esos) 1122 is the beginning of a list of victors sent to Trajan; I.Eph(esos) 1615 is a list of agones in the context of an honorific inscription.

In Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) I.Eph(esos) 22: Marble column, broken below
ii. Source(s) provenance I.Eph(esos) 22: Nysa; I.Eph(esos) 1122 and I.Eph(esos) 1615: Ephesos

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials γραμματεύων, grammateuon (I.Eph(esos) 1122, ll. 8-9): The secretary of the association.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iv. Endowments According to I.Eph(esos) 22, the association has received from its benefactor a) books to adorn the sanctuary and b) pasture land for horses - the income is used to finance the celebration of Hadrian's birthday.

X. ACTIVITIES

i. Assemblies Regular assemblies are mentioned in I.Eph(esos) 22, ll. 54-57.
ii. Meetings and events I.Eph(esos) 22 refers to a regular feast to celebrate Hadrian's birthday (ll. 18-22). I.Eph(esos) 1122 refers to an the Balbillea, an imperial agon (l. 5), which was apparently organized by the synodos; I.Eph(esos) 1615, l. 16, mentions τὰ τῆς συνόδου, ta tes synodou in a list of agones (but the reference may be to Smyrna (l. 15)).
Deities worshipped Dionysos
iv. Honours/Other activities The association honors T. Aelius Alcibiades of Nysa (which is why the decree is preserved in an inscription from Nysa). He receives images and statues, to be set up in the sanctuaries of the emperors in Asia Minor (ll. 45-50)

XI. INTERACTION

ii. Interaction abroad In I.Eph(esos) 22, there are two references to the technitai in Rome: They have already made T. Aelius Alcibiades archiereus for life (ll. 23-28), and the new decision by the Ephesian technitai shall be made known both to the emperor and the Roman techneitai (ll. 67-68)

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The world-wide organization surpasses the sphere of action of normal private associations, but the technitai remained an essentially private network
ii. Historical authenticity Certain