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Author: Maria-Gabriella Parissaki

CAPInv. 635: hoi synetheis tes Homonoias

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Thrace
ii. Region Inland Thrace
iii. Site Philippopolis

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ συνήθεις τῆς Ὁμονοίας (IGBulg V. 5434, l. 7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi synetheis tes Homonoias

III. DATE

i. Date(s) Imp.

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Theophoric:The first editor (IGBulg) gave the reading ὁμόνοια, homonoia (in minuscule, with no comment), thus suggesting its interpretation as a notion ("concord"). Contra Chaniotis who clearly considers it as referring to the deity (SEG: worshippers of Homonoia). GRA I 89 opts for the same interpretation, though with reservation ("it is not clear whether ὁμόνοια, homonoia, is to be taken as descriptive or as a personal name or the name of the Greek deity. We have translated it in the latter sense").
Other:homonoia

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IGBulg V. 5434 (Imp.)
Note See also: GRA I 89; AGRW 67; SEG 47: 1089.
Online Resources IGBulg V. 5434 and AGRW ID 2630
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication in Greek with many honorands; namely, the domus Augusta, the sacred Senate, the People of Rome, the boule and the demos of Philippopolis, the goddesses Demeter and Kore and the synetheis of Homonoia.
i.c. Physical format(s) Rectangular marble altar (1.06 x 0.60 x 0.60) fully preserved, though broken in five pieces and with a break along ll. 9-10.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in 1976 at the Roman Forum of Philippopolis, close to Hotel Trimontium.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects Βωμός, bomos is the term used in the text (l. 8) for the dedication.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members Designated collectively, under the common term οἱ συνήθεις, hoi synetheis.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments For associations of synetheis defining themselves through the name of the God they worshipped, cf. hoi synetheis tou Herakleous (CAPInv. 756).

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology points towards a private association.