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Author: Vincent Gabrielsen

CAPInv. 2072: Herakleiotai

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I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Aegean Islands
ii. Region Rhodes
iii. Site Rhodos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Ἡρακλειοταί
ii. Full name (transliterated) Herakleiotai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) iii (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Heroic:Ἡρακλεϊσταί, Herakleistai - From the hero Herakles (Morelli, I culti in Rodi [Pisa, 1959] 53-56, 147-149).

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII,1 963
ASAA 22 19
Archäologisch-epigraphische Mitteilungen aus Österreich 18, 1
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The use of a heroic name element and the dedicatory-honourific context of the attested inscriptions make the private character of the association certain, although a descriptive term is omitted.