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Last Updated on 09 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 878: phratra

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Lydia
iii. Site Territory between Gölde, Menye and the river Hermos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) φράτρα (TAM V.1 470a, l. 9)
ii. Full name (transliterated) phratra

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 96 / 97 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Kinship-related:This association is originally kinship-related, though some cultic or professional associations seems to be called phratra in Roman imperial Lydia. There is no information on the character of this concrete phratra.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.1 470a (96 / 97 AD)
Note SEG 28: 893
Online Resources TAM V.1 470a
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorary inscription post mortem dedicated to a man by his parents, various members of his family and by the hieros doumos and by his phratra. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Stele with pediment.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in the village of Ayazviran.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) The expression ἡ φράτρα αὐτοῦ, he phratra autou, ‘the phratra of him’- the deceased - has been explained by G. Petzl (Petzl 1978: 754) by the possible fact, that the deceased Apollonios was the founder or leader of the association. It could also just mean his kinship club.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The association honors the deceased with a golden crown.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The association honors the deceased with a golden crown. There is no further indication of the reason.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments Cf. TAM V1, 806 for a similar case of a man receiving a funerary dedication by many members of his family, by the phratra and by another association, in this case the speira.
iii. Bibliography de Hoz, M.-P. (1999), Die Lydischen Kulte im Lichte der griechischen Inschriften. Bonn, no. 63.31
Petzl, G. (1978), ‘Vier Inschriften aus Lydien, II’.in Şahin, S., Schwertheim, E., and Wagner, J. (eds.), Studien zur Religion und Kultur Kleinasiens. Festschrift für Friedrich Karl Doerner zum 65. Geburtstag, Leiden: 745-761

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The term phratra possibly refers to a kinship relation and thereby it might not be a real association, nor private.