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I. LOCATION

i.	Geographical area	Aegean Islands
ii.	Region	Delos
iii.	Site	Delos

II. NAME

i.	Full name (original language)	[οἱ περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον] τεχνῖται (IG XI.4 1060, ll. 1-2)
ii.	Full name (transliterated)	[hoi peri ton Dionyson] technitai

III. DATE

i.

Date(s)

m. iii - l. iii BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii.

Name elements

Cultic:	peri ton Dionyson: Dionysos was the patron god of drama (note that here this part of the name is restored)
Professional:	technitai: artists, including actors, musicians, poets and those involved in various ways with dramatic performance

iii.

Descriptive terms

[κοινόν], [koinon]

Note

IG XI.4 1060, l. 5 (fully restored)

V. SOURCES

i.	Source(s)	IG XI.4 1060 (m. iii - l. iii BC)
	Note	See also: Aneziri 2003: Dubia 1 (mid iii BC) Le Guen 2001: 133-134 (last third of iii BC)
	Online Resources	IG XI.4 1060
i.a.	Source type(s)	Epigraphic source(s)
i.b.	Document(s) typology & language/script	Honorific decree in Greek for Teleson Delios by the Dionysiac technitai.
i.c.	Physical format(s)	Lower part of a marble stele. H. (max.) 37 x W. 33 x Th. 9 cm.
ii.	Source(s) provenance	Found in 1880 near the Propylaia on Delos.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii.

References to buildings/objects

τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος, hieron tou Apollonos (l. 10)

VII. ORGANIZATION

v.	Other staff	πρεσβευτής, presebeutes (l. 8). Hermaiondas, the auletes (aulos player), was appointed ambassador (presbeutes), responsible for proclaiming the honours bestowed on Teleson in the festival of the Apollonia on Delos.
	Known practice of appointment	ἑλέσθαι, helesthai (l. 7): the presbeutes was to be elected

IX. MEMBERSHIP

v.

Relations

If Hermaiondas, the auletes and presbeutes of the technitai to Delos, is to be identified with the Boiotian Hermaiondas (see XII.i), then the Isthmian and Nemean branch included members outside the Peloponnese (see Aneziri 2003: 419).

X. ACTIVITIES

ii.	Meetings and events	Apollonia on Delos: The technitai sent their own ambassador in the festival of the Apollonia on Delos, the auletes Hermaiondas, who was entrusted to proclaim the honours bestowed upon Teleson during the festival.
iv.	Honours/Other activities	The technitai honoured Teleson Delios with a patrios crown on account of his virtue (ἀρετή, arete, fully restored) and his goodwill (εὔνοια, eunoia) towards them (ll. 2-6). The honours were to be be proclaimed in the Apollonia on Delos. The decree was to be set up in the sanctuary of Apollo on Delos.

XI. INTERACTION

ii.

Interaction abroad

The technitai dispatched a presbeutes (ambassador) to the festival of the Apollonia on Delos, responsible for the proclamations of honours granted to Teleson (ll. 6-7). The honorand was a Delian (Teleson Delios).

XII. NOTES

i.	Comments	Both Le Guen (2001: p. 133, TE 19) and Aneziri (2003: pp. 417-8, Dubia 1) reach the conclusion that the decree was in all likelihood issued by the Isthmian and Nemean branch on account of the prosopography: the auletes Hermaiondas, presbeutes of the technitai in Delos, can be identified with Hermaiondas, son of Nikias, an auletes from Boiotia, active in the last decades of the third century BC (Stephanis 1988: no. 895).
iii.	Bibliography	Aneziri, S. (2003), Die Vereine der dionysischen Techniten im Kontext der hellenistischen Gesellschaft: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte, Organisation und Wirkung der hellenistischen Technitenvereine. Stuttgart. Le Guen, B. (2001), Les associations de technites dionysiaques à l’époque hellénistique. Paris. Stephanis, I.E. (1988), Διονυσιακοί τεχνίται. Συμβολή στην προσωπογραφία του θεάτρου και της μουσικής των αρχαίων Ελλήνων. Herakleion.

XIII. EVALUATION

i.	Private association	Certain
	Note	Although the name of the technitai is partly restored, Hermaiondas' capacity as a presbeutes sent to Delos and his profession (auletes) leave no doubt about the identity of the body issuing the decree, i.e. the Dionysiac technitai.

CAPInv. 174: [hoi peri ton Dionyson] technitai