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Last Updated on 02 Mar 2017

Author: Maria-Gabriella Parissaki

CAPInv. 1758: cultores Cupidinis

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) cultores Cupidinis (Brélaz 2014: no. 223)
ii. Full name (transliterated) cultores Cupidinis

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:cultores
Theophoric:Cupido

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Brélaz 2014: no. 223 (ii AD)
Note See also: Philippi II 350/L448
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i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Latin funerary inscription
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble altar (1.23 X 0.56)
ii. Source(s) provenance Philippi, found in a field just south of the city.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ix. Privileges The association paid for the funerary monument of its members.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status The only person named in the text is the deceased, a Roman citizen with a Roman cognomen, further defined as actor coloniae.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The deceased was an actor coloniae.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments Cultores (but with the name of the deity not preserved) are also mentioned in the fragmentarily preserved funerary inscriptions Philippi II 363/L277: [c]ultor(es?), and Philippi II 373/L269: [cult?]ores.
The present group seems to be the only attestation of a private association devoted to the cult of Cupido; for its assimilation to Eros, see Brélaz 2014: p. 360.
iii. Bibliography Brélaz, C. (2014), Corpus des inscriptions grecques et latines de Philippes, Tome II: La colonie romaine, Partie 1: La vie publique de la colonie. Paris.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Given the lack of further information on the character of the group, there is no absolute certainty that it was a private association.