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Last Updated on 08 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 391: hoi kerameis

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ κεραμεῖς (TAM V.2 914, l. 8)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi kerameis

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 198 - 217 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:The potters

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.2 914 (198-217 AD)
Note See also:
Dittmann-Schöne III.1.15
Online Resources TAM V.2 914
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific inscription dedicated by the association to the emperor M. Aur. Severus Antoninus. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Possibly base of a statue reused as gravestone.
ii. Source(s) provenance Thyateira

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The honorific inscription (and statue) was erected by the association [ἐκ τῶ]<ν> ἰδίων ([ek to]<n> idion, ll. 6-7) ("at their own expenses").

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The association honours the emperor Caracalla, who received the epithet pius end of 198 AD.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments For the dedication of honorific inscriptions by private associations to emperors as a not common habit cf. van Nijf 1997: 74-5. This author compares this sort of dedications to the dedications to the gods, and explains them as "demonstrations of the loyalty of his subjects, rather than the product of any special relationship".
iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 190.
van Nijf, O. (1997), The civic world of professional associations in the Roman East. Amsterdam: 74-5.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note It is a crafmanship-association.