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Last Updated on 01 Dec 2018

Author: Mario C.D. Paganini

CAPInv. 775: ho georgikos thiasos

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
ii. Nome Arsinoites (00)
iii. Site Philadelpheia

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ὁ γεωργικὸς θίασος (P.Ryl. IV 583, ll. 8, 51)
ii. Full name (transliterated) ho georgikos thiasos

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 170 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:georgikos
iii. Descriptive terms θίασος, thiasos
Note thiasos: P.Ryl. IV 583, ll. 8, 51

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Ryl. IV 583 (170 BC)
Online Resources P.Ryl. IV 583
TM 5301
AGRW ID 20948
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek lease of a vineyard.
i.c. Physical format(s) Double document (with scriptura interior and exterior) with traces of witnesses, on papyrus

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iii. Income In the lease of the vineyard it is stated that the lessee will pay (every month?) the agricultural association a hemikadion of wine (ca 20 litres). The association therefore received contributions – presumably by its members: it is uncertain whether the lessor, the lessee, or the vineyard's owner (or the three of them?) was a member.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note Given the fact that the lease of the vineyard clearly established that a (monthly?) contribution in wine was to be given to the association, the lessor, the lessee, or the vineyard's owner (or the three of them?) was probably a member of the thiasos.
iv. Status It is uncertain whether the lessor, the lessee, or the vineyard's owner (or the three of them) was a member of the association. The three seem to have a connection with the army. The lessor was Nikomachos Halikarnasseus who had inherited his father's kleros; the lessee was Apollonios son of Apollonios Perses tes epigones. The vineyard belonged to a third person, Krates son of Pheidimos, Arsinoites (in Lycia), taktomisthos of the Pamphilians under Nikomachos and Apollonios' command, whose properties were obviously administered by Nikomachos.
vi. Proper names and physical features Νι̣κ̣ό̣μαχος Φ[  ̣  ̣]  ̣  ̣  ̣αδου Ἁλικαρνασσεὺς διάδοχος τοῦ πατρικοῦ κλήρου
Ἀπολλώνιος Ἀπολλωνίου Πέρσης τῆς ἐπιγονῆς
Κ̣ράτης Φειδίμου Ἀρσ̣ινοείτης ἀπὸ Λυκίας τῶν κ̣αθʼ αὑτοὺς Παμφύ̣λ̣ων τακτομίσθωι

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities Given the fact that the association received contributions in wine, they held drinking-parties for their members. The wine could also be sold for profit.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The presence of the term θίασος, thiasos, makes it certain that we are dealing here with a private association.