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Last Updated on 23 Mar 2017

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 625: to symposion skyt(e)on kai askonautopoion

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area The Near East and Beyond
ii. Region Syria
iii. Site Palmyra

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) τὸ συμπόσιον σκυτ(έ)ων καὶ ἀσκοναυτοποιῶν (IGLS XVII.1 59, ll. 4-7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) to symposion skyt(e)on kai askonautopoion

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 257 / 258 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:skyteis and askonautopoioi
iii. Descriptive terms συμπόσιον, symposion
Note symposion: IGLS XVII.1 59, l. 4

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IGLS XVII.1 59 (AD 257/8)
Note See also AArchSyr 13 (1963): 161,1
Online Resources AArchSyr 13 (1963): 161,1 and AGRW ID 10311
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek dedicatory inscription
i.c. Physical format(s) Base of a column
ii. Source(s) provenance Great colonnade of Palmyra

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The association honours (presumably with a statue) their patron (τὸν πάτρωνα, ton patrona, l. 6) Septimius Hairan, the son of Odainath.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Kaizer, T. (2002), The Religious Life of Palmyra. A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman Period. Stuttgart: 217.
Yon, J.-B. (2012), Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie XVII.1: Palmyre. Beyrouth.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Professional associations in the 2nd/3rd century AD were often very close to the official civic institutions, but they probably remained essentially private associations.