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Last Updated on 20 May 2019

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 1211: philoi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) φίλοι (I.Smyrna 720, l. 1)
ii. Full name (transliterated) philoi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 1 - 300 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Other:Social relations: philoi

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Smyrna 720 (1 - 300 AD)
Online Resources I.Smyrna 720
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script List of names, greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Unknown
ii. Source(s) provenance Smyrna

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number 13
ii. Gender Men
Women
Note One woman (Artemisia (l. 7)) is mentioned.

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland B 351
iii. Bibliography Poland, F. (1909), Geschichte des griechischen Vereinswesens. Leipzig: 53-4.
Ziebarth, E. (1914), Aus dem griechischen Schulwesen. Eudemos von Milet und Verwandtes. Leipzig, Berlin: 97-8.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The inscription appears as a list of “friends”, but philoi is written four times, and is also the last word (assuming that the inscription is complete). Cf., e.g., I.Iasos 625. Ziebarth 1914: 97-8 argues that his was an association with no other purpose than celebrating the members’ friendship, but the structure of the text suggests that things are more complicated. Poland 1909: 54 takes the repeated "philoi" as divisions of small groups of friends tied to the gymnasium; however, the presence of a woman seems to rule out the idea that these are neoi or ephebes.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain