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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 844: he phratria ton Darroniston

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Caria
iii. Site Mylasa

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἡ φρατρία τῶν Δαρρωνιστῶν (Blümel 2004: 15, no. 20 line 1)
ii. Full name (transliterated) he phratria ton Darroniston

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 325 - 300 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:Δαρρωνισταί, Darronistai
The element Darronistai refers to the Macedonian healing hero/god Darron; see below X.iii.
Kinship-related:φρατρία, phratria
Phratry is not a civic subdivision at Mylasa. It designates a private group originally external to Mylasa. Phratry might literally refer to a male "brotherhood". Against this interpretation, however, is the fact that a woman is honoured in the text. A kinship group of some sort remains possible.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Blümel 2004: 15, no. 20.
Note For the interpretation given here, cf. Carbon 2005.
Cf. also SEG 54, 1117.
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication, Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Inscription near the top rim of a small cylindrical marble altar.
ii. Source(s) provenance Milas.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Women
Note The worship of the Daimon of Demokrite, see below X.iii, suggests that women may also have been members or involved in the group.
iv. Status Darron is Macedonian in origin (see below X.iii). It is probable that much of the constituency of the group (including the honorand, Demokrite) was originally from that general area. Macedonian and other foreigners are fairly well-attested at Mylasa in the early Hellenistic period.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The inscription is a dedication of a small altar, which beyond the name of the group, testifies to its cultic activities.
Deities worshipped The dedication of an altar is made to the Daimon of a woman called Demokrite. For the cult of the Daimon Agathos of individuals in Caria see Carbon, and here CAPInv. 830 and CAPInv. 835.

Darron is a Macedonian deity, perhaps connected with healing (see e.g. the dedication SEG 44, 546, from Pella).

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Blümel, W. (2004) 'Neue Inschriften aus Karien II: Mylasa und Umgebung', EA 37: 1-42.
Carbon, J.-M. (2005) 'Δαρρων and δαίμων: A New Inscription from Mylasa', EA 38: 1-5.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Given the worship of a foreign god (Darron) and the circumscribed cultic activities, the private character of the phratry of the Darronistai as an association is uncontroversial.