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Last Updated on 02 Mar 2017

Author: Maria-Gabriella Parissaki

CAPInv. 1634: sancti cultores I[ovis] Optimi Maximi

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Macedonia
ii. Region Edonis
iii. Site Philippi

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) sancti cultores I[ovis] Optimi Maximi (Nigdelis 2012: ll. 13-14)
ii. Full name (transliterated) sancti cultores I[ovis] Optimi Maximi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:sancti cultores
Theophoric:Jupiter Optimus Maximus

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Nigdelis 2012 (ii AD)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary altar with a Latin inscription.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found by the modern village of Kalamonas, 800 m to the east of it and appr. 9 km. to west of Philippi.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

i. Archaeological remains Only inscriptions and chance finds are reported in the region (see Nigdelis 2012: 103, no. 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

viii. Obligations See below, section X.ii.
ix. Privileges See below, section X.iv.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iv. Endowments The cultores are named as the recipients of a bequest of 250 denarii, to be handed over to them in case the first recipients, the vicani Harpaliani (ll. 2-3), fail to fulfill the conditions specified in the text.

X. ACTIVITIES

ii. Meetings and events An annual sacrifice on the tomb of the deceased and a feast during the Rosalia were to be organised annually by the revenues of the bequest.
iv. Honours/Other activities The bequest also provided for visits to the city's gymnasium (balneum).

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The cult of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, well attested epigraphically in the Roman colony of Philippi (see Nigdelis 2012: 107, no. 36), was also related to the imperial cult.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Nigdelis, P. (2012), ‘Harpaliani: μια νέα κώμη της ρωμαϊκής αποικίας των Φιλίππων’, in P. Adam-Belene and K. Tzanabare (eds.), Δινήεσσα. Τιμητικός τόμος για την Κατερίνα Ρωμιοπούλου. Thessaloniki: 103-10.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note That this private group of devotees could have been origanised on a more permanent basis is conveyed by the fact that it is named as the recipient of a bequest generating future obligations.