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Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 451: phratra he peri Diodoron Athenagorou Kolokynthianon kai peri Athenagoran Diodorou Gorgionos

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Phrygia
iii. Site Thiunta

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) φράτρα ἡ περὶ Διόδωρον Ἀθηναγόρου Κολοκυνθιανόν καὶ περὶ Ἀθηναγόραν Διοδώρου Γοργίωνος (Ramsay, CB: 143, no. 31, ll. 1-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) phratra he peri Diodoron Athenagorou Kolokynthianon kai peri Athenagoran Diodorou Gorgionos

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Kinship-related:phratra
Personal:peri Diodoron Athenagorou Kolokynthianon kai peri Athenagoran Diodorou Gorgionos
iii. Descriptive terms φράτρα, phratra
Note phratra: Ramsay, CB: 143, no. 31, l. 1

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Ramsay, CB: 143, no. 31 (ii AD)
Online Resources Ramsay, CB: 143, no. 31
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific decree. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Large stele containing representations of divinities and cultic procedures above and below the text, as well as standardized representations of the members of the phratra.
ii. Source(s) provenance Kodja-Gözler

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership Two leaders are mentioned.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number 24
ii. Gender Men

X. ACTIVITIES

Deities worshipped Zeus
iv. Honours/Other activities Cf. CAPInv. 450. In addition to the information given there, this inscription refers to a pannychis for Zeus that has been organized by the phratra.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction Cf. CAPInv. 450

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland B *432b
iii. Bibliography Ramsay, W.M. (1895), The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia. Vol. I.1. Oxford.
Ritti, T. (2002), ‘Documenti epigrafici dalla regione di Hierapolis’, EA 34: 41-70, esp. 48-51.
Robert, L. (1983), ‘Les dieux des Motaleis en Phrygie’, JS 1983: 45-63.
Ziebarth, E. (1900), ‘Zu den griechischen Vereinsinschriften’, RhM 55: 501-19, esp. 512-3.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note Cf. CAPInv. 450.

This is apparently the same institution at a slightly later date. The leadership has changed, and at least one member seems to be the son of a member mentioned in Ramsay, CB: 142, no. 30. No agonothetes is mentioned this time, but the third person (the first one after the two leaders) is a paraphylax. Since paraphylakes were probably based in Hierapolis, this seems to show the authority that Hierapolis had over Thiunta (cf. OGIS 527); one might also regard the presence of a paraphylax in the phratra as some sort of control exercised by a Hierapolitan magistrate over an important festival in Thiunta (thus Robert 1983: 59-63).
ii. Historical authenticity Certain