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Last Updated on 08 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 407: he synodos ton techtonon

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἡ σύνοδος τῶν τεκτόνων (SEG 29: 1186, ll. 4-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) he synodos ton techtonon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 165 / 166 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:the carpenters
iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος, synodos
Note synodos: SEG 29: 1186, l. 4

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 29: 1186 (165/6 AD)
Note See also:
Dittmann-Schöne III.3.25
Online Resources SEG 29: 1186
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscription dedicated by the guild to a slave of L. Octavius Pollion, member of an important family in north-east Lydia. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble stele with pediment
ii. Source(s) provenance Saittai

VII. ORGANIZATION

viii. Obligations The association probably had some funerary obligations towards its members, or other members of the community.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The association must have funds in order to bury or erect funerary inscriptions to its members.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note The only possible member attested is a man 23 years and 9 months old.
iv. Status The person honoured by the funerary inscription is a slave of a well known family in north-east Lydia. He is probably a member of the association. For the rarity of slaves as traders or craftsmen in epitaphs cf. van Nijf 1997: 42.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities Only funerary activity is attested.
On funerary activities of professional associations cf. van Nijf 1997: 38-69.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The fact that the deceased is a slave of an important family in the region could mean that the association had some sort of local interaction.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Bakir-Barthel, S., and Müller, H. (1979), ‘Inschriften aus der umgebung von Saittai, (II)’, ZPE 36: 163-94, esp. 167, no. 28.
Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 204.
van Nijf, O. (1997), The civic world of professional associations in the Roman East. Amsterdam: 38-69.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note It is a craftmanship association.