Stable URL: http://ancientassociations.ku.dk/assoc/541Download as PDF
Last Updated on 03 Mar 2017

Author: Maria-Gabriella Parissaki

CAPInv. 541: he techne ton gnapheon

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Thrace
ii. Region Inland Thrace
iii. Site Augusta Traiana

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἡ τέχνη τῶν γναφέων (IGBulg V 5585, l. 7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) he techne ton gnapheon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) Imp.

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:γναφεῖς, gnapheis (=fullers)
iii. Descriptive terms τέχνη, techne
Note techne: IGBulg V 5585, l. 7

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IGBulg V 5585 (Imp.)
Online Resources IGBulg V 5585
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Inserted in the section of 'Varia et ambigua' in IGBulg; in its preserved part, the text records an endowment to the τέχνη γναφέων, techne gnapheon.
i.c. Physical format(s) Limestone altar; lower part broken and surface at the upper part severely damaged.
ii. Source(s) provenance Augusta Traiana, though exact place and date of finding unreported. Originally kept at the centre of Stara Zagora, at the intersection of roads Ruski and Graf Ignatiev.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iv. Endowments The association is named as the recipient of a vineyard (ἄμπελος, ampelos, l. 8), in a place read as Ζαυρωωση̣[νῇ], Zauroose[nei] by the editor (otherwise unattested). An ἐργάτης, ergates (l. 9) is also named with some further specifications that remain unclear, due to the text's fragmentary state of preservation.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note On the basis of the name, it is likely that the members were men.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments γναφεῖς, gnapheis (for Thrace and with no reference to an association) are also attested at Perinthos (funenary inscription, I.Perinthos 232) and at Nicopolis ad Istrum (dedication to Mithra, IGBulg II 679).

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note This was a private association of professionals, as indicated by its name.