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Last Updated on 08 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 376: hoi lanarioi

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Lydia
iii. Site Thyateira

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ λανάριοι (TAM V.2 1019, l. 11)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi lanarioi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 218 - 222 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:The wool-workers

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.2 1019 (218 - 222 AD)
Note See also:
Dittmann-Schöne III.1.2
Online Resources TAM V.2 1019
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific inscription for the athlete G. Perelius Aurelius Alexandros. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Base (of a statue).
ii. Source(s) provenance Thyateira

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects Reference to an honorific statue is made by the inscription, but it is not said if it was erected in the private space of the association.

VII. ORGANIZATION

v. Other staff Two persons in charge of erecting the honorific statue are mentioned in the inscription, but it is not
specified if they are members of the association or not.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The association must have funds in order to erect honorific statues such as the one mentioned here.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The association honours an athlete as the only one, and first of all athletes until then, that has participated in the augustean pythic games.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The association has surely a narrow local interaction with the public sphere of the city, since it honours
an athlete of the well-known pythic games as ἄλειπτον πρεσβευτὴν, aleipton presbeuten (ll. 9-10) (unbeatable ambassador). He was probably an "ambassador" as representative of the city, though it is also possible that he was
honoured for his well-doing towards the association.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 181.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note It is a craftmanship-association (the wool-workers).