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Author: Alexandru Avram

CAPInv. 1164: synodos Herakleoton ton peri Satyron Satyrou

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Thrace
ii. Region Euxine Coast
iii. Site Callatis

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) σύνοδος Ἡρακλεωτῶν τῶν περὶ Σάτυρον Σατύρου (I.Kallatis 72, ll. 3-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) synodos Herakleoton ton peri Satyron Satyrou

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Ethnic:Herakleotai: A society composed by residents from Heraclea (Pontica) at Callatis.
Personal:hoi peri Satyron Satyrou
iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος, synodos
Note synodos: I.Kallatis 72, l. 3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Kallatis 72 (ii AD).
Online Resources I.Kallatis 72 and AGRW ID 14483
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication in Greek by the synodos Herakleoton to Ἡρακλῆς Φαρανγείτης, Herakles Pharangeites (l. 2).
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble stele.
ii. Source(s) provenance Callatis

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) On the basis of the group's name (ll. 3-5), the founder may possibly be Satyros son of Satyros. On the other hand, he might be the leader.
ii. Leadership On the basis of the group's name (ll. 3-5), the leader may possibly be Satyros son of Satyros. On the other hand, he might be the founder.
iv. Officials One γραμματεύς, grammateus (cf. l. 5: γραμ(μ)ατεύοντος, gram(m)ateuontos).

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number 39 members including the leader (= founder?) and the grammateus.
ii. Gender Men
Note The names of members are male names.
iii. Age Children
Adults
Note Possibly also children, or at least youth, because several members are father and son.
v. Relations Several members in the list are father and son, on the basis of onomastics.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The group set up the dedication to Herakles Φαρανγείτης, Pharangeites (a toponymic epiclesis referring to a pharanx located in a mythical landscape near Heraclea Pontica, through it Herakles descended to the hell; cf. Ap. Rhod. 2.353-356, 734-745 and scholia). Worship of the god by the group is likely.
Deities worshipped Herakles Pharangeites

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Chirica, E. (1998), ‘Le culte d'Héraclès Pharangeitès à Héraclée du Pont’, REG 111: 722-3.
Corsten, Th. (2006), ‘Prosopographische und onomastische Notizen II’, EA 39: 121-32.
Corsten, Th. (2007), ‘Prosopographische und onomastische Notizen III’, Gephyra 4: 133-4.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology points to a private association.