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Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 678: U-NEA-022

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area The Near East and Beyond
ii. Region Syria
iii. Site Dura Europos

II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-NEA-022

III. DATE

i. Date(s) i - iii AD

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Dura-Europos V 454 (i - iii AD)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script List of names, in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Graffito
ii. Source(s) provenance Scratched on plaster in the Eastern wall of the temple of Azzanathkona.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials γραμματεύς, grammateus (l. 11, written γραματούς, gramatous). But see below.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number 22

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The nature of the group is uncertain. Milik 1972: 131-2 considers the possibility that it was a thiasos, but is more skeptical here than in other cases, because the group would be larger than a normal Semitic thiasos (that would, according to Milik, consist of 10 or 12 men). Cf. his discussion of other lists from the same temple, not included in this inventory, on p. 133-4.
iii. Bibliography Milik, J.T. (1972), Dédicaces faites par des dieux (Palmyre, Hatra, Tyr) et des thiases sémitiques à l’époque romaine. Paris.
Rostovtzeff, M.I. (1934), The Excavations at Dura-Europos. Preliminary Report of Fifth Season of Work, October 1931-March 1932. New Heaven.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The presence of a γραμματεύς, grammateus, could be taken as evidence for organization, but it is not clear that his office was related to the group. The only other person identified by title is a στρατιώτης, stratiotes in l. 9. The γραμματεύς, grammateus, could also be a civic magistrate.