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Author: Aitor Blanco Perez

CAPInv. 382: hoi peri Ailion Teimona mystai Hermou

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Pisidia
iii. Site Termessos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ περὶ Αἴλιον Τείμ̣ωνα μύσται Ἑρμοῦ (TAM III.1 910, ll. 1-6; TAM III.1 911, ll. 1-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi peri Ailion Teimona mystai Hermou

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 117 - iii (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:mystai
Personal: peri Ailion Teimona
Theophoric:Hermes

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM III.1 910 (117 - iii (?) AD)
TAM III.1 911 (117 - iii (?) AD)
Online Resources TAM III.1 910
TAM III.1 911
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek commemorative inscriptions.
i.c. Physical format(s) TAM III.1 910 and TAM III.1 911 are twin square altars. Measurements: 0.47x0.39
ii. Source(s) provenance Next to the aqueduct

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership Aelius Teimon

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The cult of Hermes in Termessos is also attested in TAM III.1 654.
Deities worshipped Hermes

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The name Aelius gives us a t.p.q. in AD 117 with the accession of Hadrian, but this man is not elsewhere attested (see Heberdey 1929: 125)
iii. Bibliography Heberdey, R. (1929), Termessische Studien. Vienna.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Such a probability is explained by the fact that these mystai, who worshipped Hermes, had a recognisable leader with whom the setting up of twin altars was achieved.