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Last Updated on 09 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 811: katazosma

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Lydia
iii. Site Salihli (Sardis)

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κατάζωσμα (de Hoz 1999: 15.24)
ii. Full name (transliterated) katazosma

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

i. Name in other forms σπεῖρα, speira (de Hoz 1999: 15.24, l. 11)
ii. Name elements
Cultic:The name katazosma is descriptive in relation to a cultic ritual. In the ritual of initiation, the mystai are covered with an animal skin. Cf. the iconography on an inscription of Philadelpheia: Keil and Premerstein 1908: no. 42, plate 20.
iii. Descriptive terms speira
katazosma

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) de Hoz 1999: 15.24 (ii AD)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication of an altar to Dionysos Kathegemon by the association. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) plate
ii. Source(s) provenance Salihli

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects Reference to the dedicated altar of Dionysos Kathegemon

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials ἱεροφάντης, hierophantes
ἀρχιβούκολος, archiboukolos

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note All members attested are men

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The association dedicates an altar to Dionysos Kathegemon. The officials, hirophantes and archiboukolos are known to be officials of Dionysos cult.
Deities worshipped Dionysos Kathegemon

XII. NOTES

i. Comments For an association in relation to Dionysos called κατάζωσις, katazosis, attested in Rome cf. Merkelbach 1988: 17f.
iii. Bibliography Buresch, K. (1898), Aus Lydien: epigraphisch-geographische Reisefrüchte. Leibzig, nr. 8. (SEG XVI 730 without text).
de Hoz, M.-P. (1999), Die Lydischen Kulte im Lichte der griechischen Inschriften. Bonn: nr. 15.24.
Keil, J., and von Premerstein, A. (1911), Bericht über eine zweite Reise in Lydien ausgeführt 1908, (Denkschriften Akad. Wien Band 54.2): no. 9.
Keil, J, and von Premerstein, A. (1908), Bericht über eine Reise in Lydien und der südlichen Aiolis, ausgeführt 1906 (Denkschriften Akad Wien. Band 53.2).Wien.
Merkelbach, R. (1988), Die Hirten des Dionysos. Suttgart.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Dionysos associations are private though many of them have an important public sphere.