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I. LOCATION

i.	Geographical area	Southern Italy with Sicily
ii.	Region	Campania
iii.	Site	Naples

II. NAME

i.	Full name (original language)	οἶκος τῶν γυναικῶν (IG XIV 760, ll. 1-2)
ii.	Full name (transliterated)	oikos ton gynaikon

III. DATE

i.

Date(s)

71 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii.

Name elements

Status-related:	gynaikes
Other:	gynaikes

iii.

Descriptive terms

οἶκος, oikos

Note

oikos: IG XIV 760, l. 2

V. SOURCES

i.	Source(s)	IG XIV 760 (AD 71)
	Note	See also: CIG 5838; IGR I 453; I.Napoli I 85
	Online Resources	I.Napoli I 85 and TM 522412
i.a.	Source type(s)	Epigraphic source(s)
i.b.	Document(s) typology & language/script	IG XIV 760 contains three decrees (psephismata, l. 2) of the Neapolitan Civic Council (proskletos, l. 6) passed in AD 71 in honor of Tettia Casta, who was priestess for life (hiereia dia biou, ll. 1-2) of the oikos of the women and had died prematurely. The inscription is written in Greek.
i.c.	Physical format(s)	Marble slab
ii.	Source(s) provenance	Found in 1612 in Naples, Monastero of S. Maria Egiziaca.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii.

Leadership

Most probable a ἱέρεια διὰ βίου, hiereia dia biou (IG XIV 760, ll. 1-2)

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii.	Gender	Women
	Note	The name of the group and of its hiereia clears shows that women only were members.
iii.	Age	Adults
	Note	Tettia Casta was married and had a son (IG XIV 760, ll. 22-23); she died untimely (IG XIV 760, l. 7).
iv.	Status	Tettia Casta was surely a Neapolitan matrona, who belonged to a family in the highest social position, see Lomas 1993: 179-80.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii.	Worship	Tettia Casta was most likely a/the priestess of Demeter Thesmophoros; this was a typically women's worship as already attested in Naples, see Peterson 1919: 185-6; Miranda Di Martino 2012: 99-100.
	Deities worshipped	Demeter Thesmophoros (?)
iv.	Honours/Other activities

XI. INTERACTION

i.

Local interaction

The Neapolitan Civic Council voted to honor (τιμᾶν, timan, l. 9) the priestess for life of the association, Tettia Casta, with: a statue (ἀνδριάς, andrias, ll. 9; 13-14), an inscribed shield (ἀσπίς ἐγγεγραμμένη, aspis engegrammene, l. 9), a gold crown (χρύσεος στέφανος, chryseos stephanos, l. 15), a funeral and a tomb with stele at public expense (θάπτειν αὐτὴν δαπάνῃ δημοσίαι, thaptein auten dapanei demosiai, ll. 9-10; τόπος εἰς κηδείαν, topos eis kedeian, ll. 10-11, 19; στήλη, stele, l. 20). The honors are justified with references to: the honorand's universal εὐσέβεια (eusebeia) and εὔνοια (eunoia) towards the city, and her liberality in providing continuously silver statues of the gods to beautify the city (IG XIV 760, ll. 7-9).

XII. NOTES