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Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 1678: Samothrakiastai hoi syn Athenodotoi son of Metrodoros

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Σαμοθρακιασταὶ οἱ σὺν Ἀθηνοδότωι Μητροδώρου (BCH 4: 164, no. 21, ll. 5.1-7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Samothrakiastai hoi syn Athenodotoi son of Metrodoros

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 172 - 150 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:Samothrake is a geographical reference, but also a cultic one due to the famous mysteries celebrated there.
Geographical:Samothrake
Personal:"With Athenodoros"

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) BCH 4: 164, no. 21 (172 - 150 BC)
Note See also:
Boulay 2013: 269
Online Resources BCH 4: 164, no. 21
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscription, Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble block, with nine crowns depicted
ii. Source(s) provenance From a cemetery in Sığacık

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership Athenodotos son of Metrodoros seems to have been the leader of this as well as of two other associations. His brother may have been Metrodoros son of Metrodoros, the leader of the board of synarchontes who were among the 9 groups of BCH 4: 164, no. 21.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The Samothrakiastai were either initiates in the Samothracian mysteries, or simply worshipped the Samothracian gods (cf. Pottier and Hauvette-Besnault 1880: 166-7).
Deities worshipped Theoi Megaloi of Samothrace

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction BCH 4: 164, no. 21 attests to a collaboration of 9 different groups. Of these, 2 are boards of magistrates, 5 may be legitimately labeled private associations, and 2 may be either, as their names are only fragmentarily preserved (οἱ σὺν ..., hoi syn ...).

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland B 340
iii. Bibliography Boulay, Th. (2013), ‘Les « groupes de référence » au sein du corps civique de Téos’, in P. Fröhlich, and P. Hamon (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIe siècle apr. J.-C.), Genève: 251-75.
Pottier, E., and Hauvette-Besnault, A. (1880), ‘Inscriptions d’Érythrées et de Téos’, BCH 4: 153-82.
Suys, V. (2005), ‘Les associations cultuelles dans la cité aux époques hellénistique et impériale’, in V. Dasen, and M. Pierart (eds.), Ἰδίᾳ καὶ δημοσίᾳ. Les cadres "privés" et "publics" de la religion grecque antique, Liège: 203-18.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Nothing is known about this association beyond the mere name. In Teos, associations were more closely linked to the "société civique" than in most other cities (Suys 2005: 207; Boulay 2013). Cooperation with civic institutions was normal, as is the case in this inscription. The association may nevertheless have been essentially private.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain