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Author: Paschalis Paschidis

CAPInv. 500: bakcheion presbyteron

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Macedonia
ii. Region Northern Paionia
iii. Site Stoboi

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) βακχεῖον πρεσβύτερον (Babamova 2012: no. 7, ll. 1-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) bakcheion presbyteron

III. DATE

i. Date(s) i AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:bakcheion
Other:presbyteros (descriptive)

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Babamova 2012: no. 7 (i AD)
Note See also Jaccottet II no. 24; Vulić 1933: no. 55; Robert 1934: 31 n. 3; IG XII suppl. 387
Online Resources Vulić 1933: no. 55
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek honorific inscription
i.c. Physical format(s) Framed rectangular stele.
ii. Source(s) provenance Stobi.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership The honorand Prepon is the association's ἀρχιμύστης, archimystes (on the term, cf. Nigdelis 2006: 108-10).

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The bakcheion honoured its leader, the archimystes Prepon.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The adjective presbyteron qualifying the bakcheion means that the association identified itself as the older, and thus more distinguished, cult association of the god. Such distinctions were common markers of the competition between various cult groups in this period (see Paschidis, forthcoming).

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The term βακχεῖον, bakcheion seems unattested elsewhere in Macedonia for Dionysiac thiasoi and / or associations.
iii. Bibliography Babamova, S. (2012), Inscriptiones Stoborum. Stobi: no 7.
Nigdelis, P.M. (2006), Επιγραφικά Θεσσαλονίκεια. Συμβολή στην πολιτική και κοινωνική ιστορία της αρχαίας Θεσσαλονίκης. Thessaloniki.
Paschidis, P. (forthcoming), ‘Civic cults and (other) religious associations: in search of collective identities in Roman Macedonia’ in A. Casemier and S. Skaltsa (eds.), Associations in Context: rethinking associations and religion in the post-classical polis Copenhagen.
Vulić, N. (1933), Неколико питања из античке прошлости, Srpska kraljevska akademija. Belgrade.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The adjective qualifying the association (presbyteron) clearly implies that this was one of several groups related to the Dionysiac cult at Stobi, and thus most probably a private association.