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Last Updated on 24 Mar 2017

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 664: chrysoch<o>oi

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area The Near East and Beyond
ii. Region Palaestina
iii. Site Beth Shearim

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) χρυσοχ<ό>οι (Schwabe and Lifshitz 1967: 21, no. 61, l. 6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) chrysoch<o>oi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) iv - v AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:chrysochooi

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Schwabe and Lifshitz 1967: 21, no. 61 (iv - v AD)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Tomb marker, in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Plaque
ii. Source(s) provenance Catacomb 1, hall K

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects μημόριον, memorion (l. 1)

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The text states that this is "the grave of Lentios, father of the Rabbi Paregorios and the palatinus Julianos, of the goldsmiths" (ἀπὸ χρυσοχῶν, apo chrysochon). Schwabe and Lifshitz 1967: 21 note that the latter affiliation must refer to the father, because the sons' professions have already been indicated (he would not then be "père d'un rabbin et d'un orfèvre", as Robert 1958: 42, n. 7 states. That the father's profession is given not as χρυσοχόος, chrysochoos, but with reference to a collective, seems to point to a professional association of goldsmiths. This is not surprising given the late antique trend to group the practitioners of trades and crafts into collegia with obligatory membership.
iii. Bibliography Robert, L. (1958), ‘Inscriptions grecques de Sidè en Pamphylie’, RPh 32: 15-58.
Schwabe, M., and Lifshitz, B. (1967), בית־שערים. כרך שני. הכתובות היווניתו. Jerusalem: 21, no. 61.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The nature of professional associations in late antiquity may be debated, but much speaks against seeing them as private associations.