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Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 389: hoi skytotomoi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ σκυτοτόμοι (TAM V.2 1002, l. 1)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi skytotomoi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) i - ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:The shoemakers

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.2 1002 (end of the 1st. - beginning of the second century AD)
Note See also:
Dittmann-Schöne III.1.13
Online Resources TAM V.2 1002
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific inscription dedicated by the association to an important member of the Roman elite. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Base
ii. Source(s) provenance Thyateira

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The association is supposed to have funds in order to be able to erect honorific inscriptions.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship TAM V.2 1002 is an honorific inscription for a priest of Artemis, and the inscription is erected during the priesthood of his daughters. These facts could be evidence of the association's worship of the goddess Artemis, an important goddess in the city of Thyateira, but there is no confirmation.
Deities worshipped Artemis?
iv. Honours/Other activities The association erects honorific inscriptions probably with statues. TAM V.2 1002 is evidence for the honour awarded to T. Phlabios Metrophanous, former agoranomos, curator of the conventus civium Romanorum, embassador to the Emperor in Rome, defense lawyer for the people of Attaleia and priest of Artemis. In the holding of these charges he has been eager of glory, pious and generous.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The nature of the honoured person, who holds important charges in the city, makes it probable that the association had, or wished to have local interaction. As Dittmann-Schöne states, the workmanship-associations were interested in having good relations with the market surveillors (agoranomoi) of the city. Cf. TAM V.2 966 and 932 for honorific inscriptions of bakers to agoranomoi.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments On the importance of honorific inscriptions set up by private associations in order to commemorate the relationships that they maintained with the leading members of society cf. van Nijf 1997: 73f.
iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 189-90.
van Nijf, O. (1997), The civic world of professional associations in the Roman East. Amsterdam: 73f. and 93, no. 102.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note It is a workmanship-association.