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Author: Ilias Arnaoutoglou

CAPInv. 336: synodos tou Herakleous

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Attica with Salamis
ii. Region Attica
iii. Site Athens?

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) σύνοδος τοῦ Ἡρακλέους (SEG 36: 228, ll. 3-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) synodos tou Herakleous

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 159 / 158 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Theophoric:Herakles
iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος, synodos
Note synodos: SEG 36: 228, l. 3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 36: 228 (159/8 BC)
Note Ed. pr.: Bol 1983: I, 216-7
Other publications: GRA I 38; AGRW 3
Cf. SEG 47: 26
Online Resources SEG 36: 228 and AGRW ID 2998
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek catalogue of 13 new members
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble pedimental stele, broken at the bottom.
ii. Source(s) provenance The inscription was donated to the Liebieghaus Museum in Frankfurt a. M. (Inv. no. 1570) from a private collection. Its provenance remains uncertain but it is likely to have come from Athens.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects A stele with the names of the new members is mentioned in l. 4.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials The association apparently had a priest (ἱερεύς, hiereus), Sosandros, son of Philips, Kydathenaieus (ll. 1-2).
Eponymous officials The priest's name accompanies the name of the polis' archon and probably the priest served as an eponymous: ἐπὶ Ἀρισταίχμου ἄρχοντος καὶ ἱερέως | Σωσάνδρου τοῦ Φιλίνου Κυδαθηναιέως, epi Aristaichmou archontos kai hiereos Sosandrou tou Philinou Kydathenaieos (ll. 1-2).

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number The group had more than fourteen members.
ii. Gender Men
Note The names in the list of new members are all male names.
Σώσανδρος Φιλίνου Κυδαθηναιεύς, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (22)
Δημήτριος Παιανιεύς, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (433)
Τιμαγόρας Ῥαμνούσιος, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (7)
Σωτήριχος Ἀντιοχεύς, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (105)
Πέτρων οἰκογενής, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (2)
Σώδας Ποτάμιος, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (2)
Γλαυκίας Ἀντιοχεύς, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (70)
Ζώπυρος Ἀφιδναῖος Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (34)
Σπερχειός, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (1)
Μελέαγρος, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (4)
Σίνδης, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (1)
Σωσίβιος, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (63)
Ἱπποδρόμος, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (1)
Ἀττᾶς, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (7)
iii. Age Adults
iv. Status Citizens: 5
Foreigners: 2 (Antiocheus)
Slave: 1
Unidentified: 6

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The decision to inscribe the catalogue was taken in the archonship of Aristaichmos.
iii. Bibliography Arnaoutoglou, I. (2003), Thusias heneka kai sunousias. Private religious associations in Hellenistic Athens. Athens.
Arnaoutoglou, I. (2011), ‘"Ils étaient dans la ville, mais tout à fait en dehors de la cité". Status and identity in private religious associations in Hellenistic Athens’, in O. van Nijf and R. Alston (eds.), Political culture in the Greek city after the classical age, Leuven: 27-48.
Bol, P. (1983), Liebieghaus-Museum alter Plastik: Antike Bildwerke I: Bildwerke aus Stein und aus Stuck von archaischer Zeit bis zur Spatantike. Melsungen: I, 216-7.
Ismard, P. (2010), La cité des réseaux. Athènes et ses associations VIe – Ier siècle av. J.-C. Paris: 349.
Mikalson, J. (1998), Religion in Hellenistic Athens. Los Angeles: 278.
Parker, R. (1996), Athenian religion. A history. Oxford: 341. (SEG 47: 26)

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The association displays all the hallmarks of a private association: distinct name, membership, organization, property and durability.