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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 831: [to koinon ton] eisporeuomenon en ? AL[...]

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Caria
iii. Site Herakleia-on-the-Latmos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [τὸ κοινὸν τῶν] εἰσπορευομένων ἐν ? ΑΛ[—] (Haussoullier 1899: 286-287, no. 8, line 2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) [to koinon ton] eisporeuomenon en ? AL[...]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 300 (?) BC - 200 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Other:to koinon ton eisporeuomenon en AL[...] - The name is largely restored and its type is very unclear. Literally, it suggests a group or association of those "who go" into a certain place (en AL...; topographical or otherwise).

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Haussoullier 1899: 286-7, no. 8 (ca. 300-200 BC?).
Online Resources PHI: Herakleia Latmia 21
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script The text appears to be an honorific inscription in Greek for one Agathon the son of Andron (line 1). Further lines of the inscription seem to specify the honouring agents (lines 2ff.).
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble plaque.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials ἐπιστάτης, epistates (line 5)
Possibly a reference to a president of the group or of another body, though the context is fragmentary: [—]ΛΙΟΣ ἐπιστα[τήσαντα —].

Another passage of the inscription may mention the duty of ἐπιμέλεια ([ἐ]π[ιμ]ελησ[άμενον? —], line 3).

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Haussoullier, B. (1899), 'Inscriptions d'Héraclée du Latmos', RPh 23: 274-92.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The name is largely restored by Haussoullier (the idea of a koinon is entirely speculative). Accordingly, the type of private association, if indeed correctly presumed, remains very unclear, though its name may suggests analogies with cultic groups of "those who go into" (a given sanctuary), "gather together" for a cult. Cp. for instance the οἱ τοῦ Διὸς θεραπευταὶ τῶν εἰ[ς] τὸ ἄδυτον εἰσπορευομένων of Sardis 7,1 22 (cp. also SEG 29, 1205), or e.g. to koinon ton symporeuomenon para Dia Hyetion, CAPI 1879. However, other possibilities for the interpretation of this fragment cannot be excluded.