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Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1361: tektones apo Ptolemaidos

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
ii. Nome Thinites (U08)
iii. Site Ptolemais Hermeiou

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) τέκτονες ἀπὸ Πτο[λε]μαΐδος (IGR I 1155 ll. 1-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) tektones apo Ptolemaidos

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 45 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Geographical:apo Ptolemaidos
Professional:tektones

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IGR I 1155 (AD 45)
Note other editions: I.Breccia 54; SB I 996
Online Resources IGR I 1155
TM 102698
AGRW ID 15299
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication/Topos Inscription in Greek

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects τόπος, topos (l. 6)

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials πρεσβύτεροι presbyteroi (ll. 3-4)
ἱερεύς, hiereus (l. 7) Diogenes son of Apollonios

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

ii. Realty ἑαυτῶν τόπος heauton topos (l. 6)

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The tektones here could, in fact, be carpenters or joiners, but with the lack of any definitive mention of their trading or professional activity, it seems best to use the general sense of the term.
iii. Bibliography Buraselis, K. (1995), 'Zu Caracallas Strafmaßnahmen in Alexandrien (215/6). Die Frage der Leinenweber in P.Giss. 40 II und der Syssitia in Cass. Dio 77 (78). 23. 3', ZPE 108: 166-84, (esp.179 and n. 69)
van Minnen, P. (1987), 'Urban Craftsmen in Roman Egypt', MBAH 6: 31-88, (esp. 52)

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The text does not contain a specific reference to a synodos, koinon, thiasos, plethos, etc. Nevertheless, as other examples of topoi inscriptions indicate (e.g. CAPInv. 1360; CAPInv. 1253; CAPInv. 1493) this may still refer to an association. The reference to the tektones, and to the presbyteroi of the group for that matter, argues for the existence of an association here, too.