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Last Updated on 12 Jul 2019

Author: Vincent Gabrielsen

CAPInv. 1820: Hagesi[t]imeioi kai Kallikrate[ioi]

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Aegean Islands
ii. Region Rhodes
iii. Site City of Rhodes

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Ἁγησι[τ]ίμειοι κα̣ὶ Καλλικράτε[ιοι] (ClRhod 2 (1932) 203, no. 36, l. 4).
ii. Full name (transliterated)
Hagesi[t]imeioi kai Kallikrate[ioi]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:The two elements in the name of this association derive from the personal names Hagesitimos and Kallikrates, both of which are profusely attested in Rhodes: see LGPN I, s.vv. Hagesitimos no. 3, and Kallikrates no. 77.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) ClRhod 2 (1939) 203, no. 36, l. 4.
Note New readings of the inscription are based on autopsy by Vincent Gabrielsen.
The date proposed here, second century BC, is primarily based on the letter forms: see also LGPN I, s.v. Timostratos no. 56.
Online Resources ClRhod 2 (1932) 203, no. 36
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedicatory-honorary. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Rectangular base, whose top surface has the form of a round base (to receive a round altar?).
ii. Source(s) provenance Discovered at the excavations at the Mosque of Suleiman (within the old city).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Possibly, the association was founded by Hagesitimos or by Kallikrates or by both of them jointly.
Gender Male
iii. Members The person to whom the statue base belonged, of whom we only know that he was the adopted son of Timostratos of the Lindian deme Brasioi (LGPN I, s.v. Timostratos no. 56), was a member of this association.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status The unknown, adoptive son of Timostratos Brasios was a citizen.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The Hagesitimeioi kai Kallikrateioi had honoured the (unknown) adoptive son of Timostratos Brasios with the award of a wreath (kind unknown). In the inscription their honour is mentioned together with those separately bestowed on the same person by the Lapethiastai (Λαπηθιασταὶ), the Diagonia Thymoterpidan (διαγονία Θυμοτερπιδᾶν) and the Hermaistai (Ἑρμαισταί).

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The circumstance that the name of this association consists of two personal names renders it certain that it is a private association.