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Last Updated on 11 Jul 2019

Author: Andreas Victor Walser

CAPInv. 1044: he topike synodos

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Ionia
iii. Site Miletus

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἡ τοπική σύνοδος (Milet VI.3 1140 l. 16)
ii. Full name (transliterated) he topike synodos

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 177 - a. 193 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Geographical:topical, "local"
iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος, synodos

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Milet VI.3 1140
Note Pékary 1965: 121-3
Online Resources Pékary 1965: 121-3
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honary inscription. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Round marble basis
ii. Source(s) provenance From the ruins of a Byzantine monastery on an island in the Bafa Gölü.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership ἀρχιερεύς, archiereus

The Milesians honor a musician who was inter alia the "high priest of the local synodos" (ἀρχιερεύς τῆς τοπικῆς συνόδου, archiereus tes topikes synodou). He certainly was the highest dignitary of the association.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

v. Relations The association is defined as the τοπική σύνοδος (topike synodos). This is the local Milesian section of the large international association of the musical artists. Cf. below XII.i.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments As Robert (in Pékary 1965: 123) has explained, this synodos is certainly the local section of the ἱερὰ θυμελικὴ σύνοδος, hiera thymelike synodos, the international association of musical artists. Its usual name in its fullest form is ἡ ἱερὰ σύνοδος τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς οἰκουμένης περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον καὶ αὐτοκράτορα … τεχνειτῶν ἱερονεικῶν στεφανειτῶν καὶ τῶν τούτων συναγωνιστῶν, he hiera synodos ton apo tes oikoumenes peri ton Dionyson kai autokratora ... techneiton hieroneikon stephaneiton kai ton touton sunagoniston (cf. Aneziri 2009: 222, who also accepts (ibid. 223 n. 40) Roberts identification of the Milesian synodos as the local branch of the worldwide association.
iii. Bibliography Aneziri, S. (2009), 'World Travellers: the Associations of Artists of Dionysus', in R. Hunter and I. Rutherford (eds.), Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture. Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism, Cambridge: 217-236.
Pékary, Th. (1965), 'Inschriftenfunde aus Milet 1959', MDAI(I) 15, 1965, 118-34.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology (synodos) and the typology (see XII.i Comments) suggests a private association.