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Last Updated on 24 Jun 2019

Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1121: hoi temenitai

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Caria
iii. Site Mylasa

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ τεμενῖται (Blümel 2004: 13 no. 15, line 3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi temenitai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 150 BC - 50 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:οἱ τεμενῖται ,hoi temenitai
The term stricto sensu designates worshippers who gathered together in a temenos or sacred precinct. Possibly the term may also have had funerary connotations, referring to a mortuary precinct, see XIII.i below, for parallels.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Blümel 2004: 13 no. 15 (late Hellenistic).
Note Cf. also Carbon 2013.
Online Resources No text available online.
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication in Greek erected in fulfilment of a vow.
i.c. Physical format(s) The inscription is written on the vertical side of a cylindrical altar or base with an indentation at the top. A relief above the inscription depicts a dolphin resting on a pillar.
ii. Source(s) provenance Milas.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) The principal individual mentioned in the text before the temenitai is one Eutychos (no paternal name), probably the founder or leader of the group in question.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership See immediately above.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The short inscription is said to be a consecration, made in fulfilment of a vow (εὐχὴν).
Deities worshipped Apollo or Apollo Delphinios? This recipient is not explicitly mentioned, but for an interpretation of the relief depicting a dolphin on a pillar, see Carbon 2013.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Blümel, W. (2004) "Neue Inschriften aus Karien: Mylasa und Umgebung II", EA 37: 1-42.

Carbon, J.-M. (2013) "Dolphin-pillars", EA 46: 27-34.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The precise character and context of the temenitai associated with Eutychos in this dedication remain somewhat enigmatic, also since temenitai are otherwise unattestated at Mylasa. Nevertheless, a cultic association, possibly one having connections to Apollo Delphinios and Miletos, is a strong probability. For the cultic and funerary dimensions of the temenitai at Miletos, see here CAPInv. 998, CAPInv. 999, CAPInv. 1000, CAPInv. 1001, and CAPInv. 1004.