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Author: Mario C.D. Paganini

CAPInv. 61: he megale synodos Pramarreious theou megalou

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
ii. Nome Arsinoites (00)

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἡ μεγάλη σύνοδος Πραμαρρείους θεοῦ μεγάλου (I.Fayoum I 6, ll. 5-7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) he megale synodos Pramarreious theou megalou

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 104 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Theophoric:Pramarres, deified Pharaoh Amenhemhat III.
iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος, synodos
Note Synodos: I.Fayoum I 6, l. 6

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Fayoum I 6 (23 Epeiph = 7 Aug. 104 BC)
Online Resources I.Fayoum I 6
TM 6608
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek dedication on behalf of Cleopatra III and Ptolemy X Alexander I.
i.c. Physical format(s) Stele, with offering scene in relief above the inscription.
ii. Source(s) provenance The stone was bought in Medinet el-Fayyum (metropolis of the Arsinoites) but its provenance is uncertain. Rubensohn (1905): 112 suggested Soknopaiou Nesos as the provenance of the stone, on the basis of the fact that on the same day a dedication to Isis, Harpocrates, and Premarres (I.Fayoum I 69) was set up in Soknopaiou Nesos by a couple and the father of the wife bore the same name as the epimeletes of this synodos. This is however doubtful. Pasek (2007): 136 thinks that the stone came from Hawara, where he also identifies the same association in a Demotic document from the Hellenistic period.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership ἐπιμελητεύων, epimeleteuon (l. 10), called Philon, son of Philon. On the title of epimeletes to indicate the leader of an association, cf. San Nicolò 1972: 61.
Eponymous office ἐπιμελητεύοντος | [Φί]λωνος τοῦ Φίλωνος, epimeleteuontos Philonos tou Philonos (l. 10).
iii. Members The members are called 'those from the synodos' of the god: [οἱ ἐκ τῆ]ς [με]|γάλης συνόδου Πραμαρρε̣[ί]|ους θεοῦ μεγάλου, [hoi ek te]s [me]gales synodou Pramarre[i]ous theou megalou (ll. 5-7).
iv. Officials The associations has a ἱερεὺς διὰ βίου, hiereus dia biou (ll. 7-8) called Eirenaios, son of Eirenaios.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status Eirenaios, the association's hiereus dia biou, bore the title of syngenes of the King.
vi. Proper names and physical features Εἰρηναῖος Ε[ἰρ]ηναίου ὁ συγγενής
Φίλων Φίλωνος

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The dedication was made on behalf of the Queen and the King, thus showing the association's devotion to the Royal House.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Pasek, S. (2007), Hawara: eine ägyptische Siedlung in hellenistischer Zeit, Berlin.
Rubensohn, O. (1905), 'Pramarres', ZÄS 42: 111-15.
San Nicolò, M. (1972), Ägyptisches Vereinswesen zur Zeit der Ptolemäer und Römer. 2nd edn. München.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology used (synodos), the internal organisation, and the officials make it certain that we have here a private association.