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Last Updated on 21 Feb 2017

Author: Ilias Arnaoutoglou

CAPInv. 238: [o]rgeo[nes]

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Attica with Salamis
ii. Region Attica
iii. Site Athens

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [ὀ]ργεῶ[νες] (IG II2 1599, l. 2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) [o]rgeo[nes]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 340 - 320 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:orgeones

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG II2 1599 (340 - 320 BC)
Note Other publications: Lambert, Rationes, 70 no. F14.
Cf. SEG 21: 574; SEG 40: 151ter; SEG 56: 208. BE 1980, no. 200; 1999, no. 192.
Online Resources IG ii2 1599
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Reference to orgeones in an hekatoste inscription in Greek.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in the Akropolis, Athens, now in the Epigraphical Museum, EM 7964.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials Steward, [ἐπι]μελητ[ής], [epi]melet[es], ll. 2-3.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

ii. Realty Probably the association owned land, the sale (or lease?) of which was taxed 1%.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
iv. Status Most probably citizen, if the demotic belongs to the epimeletes.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The sold property of the orgeones was taxed.

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland A6A
iii. Bibliography Ismard, P. (2010), La cité des réseaux. Athènes et ses associations VIe – Ier siècle av. J.-C.. Paris: 167-73.
Lambert, S. (1997), Rationes centesimarum. Sales of public land in Lykourgan Athens. Amsterdam.
Tracy, S. (1995), Athenian democracy in transition. Attic letter cutters of 340-290 B.C.. Berkeley: 159.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Lambert 1997: 201 considers the orgeones as a sub-group of a phratry. I think that it is more likely to be a private associations.