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Author: Andreas Victor Walser

CAPInv. 1400: ho hieros oikos ton en Klidoni

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Ionia
iii. Site Magnesia on the Maiandros

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ὁ ἱερὸς οἶκος τῶν ἐν Κλίδωνι
ii. Full name (transliterated) ho hieros oikos ton en Klidoni

III. DATE

i. Date(s) f. ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Topographical:Κλίδων, Klidon, place in or near Magnesia
Other:ἱερὸς, hieros
iii. Descriptive terms οἶκος, oikos
Note Oikos is most probably a descriptive term for the association. It cannot be excluded, however, that the term does refer to a specific building.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I. Magnesia 117
Note Hiller von Gaertringen 1893: 31; I. Magnesia 117; SEG 17, 496; Jaccottet 2003: II no. 147; Harlan 2014: 349-350.
Online Resources I.Magnesia 117
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Register of testamentary donations for sacrifices for the dead. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Block of marble
ii. Source(s) provenance Magnesia, west of the gymnasium

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects cf. notes of IV.iii above

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership ἀρχιμύστης, archimystes (I.Magnesia 117 l. 2)
iii. Members μύσται, mystai (I.Magnesia 117 l. 3-4)
iv. Officials ἄππας Διονύσου, appas Dionysou, "foster-father";
ἱέρεια καὶ στεφανηφόρος, hiereia kai stephanephoros, "priestess and crown-bearer";
ἱεροφάντης, hierophantes, "initiating priest";
ἡ ὑπότροφος, he hypotrophos, "assistent-nurse"
(I.Magnesia 117)

Some of the terms used for the officials of the association ("foster-father", "nurse") seem to refer to mystique rites in which the infancy of the god was reenacted (cf. Jaccottet 2003: I 88-89; 114-15; 129-30; II 248).

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iv. Endowments Several members bequeathed small sums of money to the association. The money was to be used for the customary offerings in the month of Lenaion.
The funds seem to have been lent out at interest by the initiates, so that the sacrifices could be payed from the revenues.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Women

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The association was obviously formed around the cult of Dionysos. Specific cultic activities are not recorded.
Deities worshipped Dionysos
iv. Honours/Other activities The mystai perform the customary rites for the former members who left money for that purpose (cf. VIII.iv).

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Harland, Ph.A. (2014), Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations and Commentary. II. North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor. Berlin, Boston.
Jaccottet, A.-F. (2003), Choisir Dionysos. Les associations dionysiaques ou la face cachée du dionyisme. Kilchberg.
Hiller von Gaertringen, F. (1893), 'Une inscription des ΜΥΣΤΑΙ de Magnésie du Méandre', BCH 17, 1983: 31-34.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology (oikos) and the religious character suggests a private association.