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Last Updated on 02 Mar 2017

Author: Paschalis Paschidis

CAPInv. 805: U-MAC-011

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Macedonia
ii. Region Mygdonia
iii. Site Thessalonike

II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-MAC-011

III. DATE

i. Date(s) s. ii - f. iii AD

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG X.2.1 208 (ii-iii AD)
Online Resources IG X.2.1 208
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscription in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Lower fragment of a stele, with inscription in a moulded panel

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials The presence of a γραμματεύς, grammateus (l. 7), is the only secure indication that this monument was erected by an association.
Eponymous officials The formula γραμματεύοντος, grammateuontos, implies that the secretary's name was used for dating purposes.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Women
Note The two known members are a woman who supervised the erection of the funerary monument and the grammateus.
iv. Status The association apparently comprised household servants and liberated slaves of a wealthy Thessalonican couple (Nigdelis 2010: 19). The grammateus and the woman who supervised the erection of the monument share the same nomen, hence formerly belonged to the same master.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Nigdelis, P.M. (2010), ‘Voluntary Associations in Roman Thessalonike: in Search of Identity and Support in a Cosmopolitan Society’, in L. Nasrallah, Ch. Bakirtzis and S. Friesen (eds.), From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonike: Studies in Religion and Archaeology. Cambridge Mass., London: 13-47, no. 19 and no. 8.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The only indication that this monument was erected by a private association is the presence of a secretary, making this funerary monument the only source for household associations in Macedonia.