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Last Updated on 24 Jun 2019

Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 847: synergasia

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) συνεργασία (I.Mylasa 334, line 7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) synergasia

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 100 (?) - 300 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:συνεργασία, synergasia
A group or collective of workers.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Mylasa 334 (ca. 100-300 AD?)
Note Cf. also Dittmann-Schöne 2001: 211, no. IV.3.1.
Online Resources PHI: Mylasa 203
Harland, AGRW no. 10972
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication in Greek of a statue of Herakles to the association.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble statue base(?).
ii. Source(s) provenance Milas (Mylasa); brought to Hierapolis which caused some confusion about the origin; now lost?

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) See below VII.v.
ii. Leadership See below VII.v.
v. Other staff Papias son of Papias son Straton, called Diogenes
The dedicator of the statue was perhaps involved in the association, for instance as its leader, or at least its benefactor: Παπίας βʹ | τοῦ Στράτωνος ὁ καλούμενος Διογένης, Papias B' | tou Stratonos ho kaloumenos Diogenes. In this connection, it is worth underlinining that he has the title of "chief contractor of the portico" (for the second time; ἀρχώνης ξυστοῦ τὸ βʹ, archones xystou to B*).

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note Exclusively male membership is likely in the group of workers.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The individual nicknamed Diogenes dedicates a statue of Herakles for the benefit of the association. It is unclear exactly what was intended: is the statue of Herakles a cult-object, or simply a decoration made in the name of the workers for the portico of the gymnasion?

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2001), Die Berufvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens, Regensburg.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The name of the group, synergasia, adequately suggests a private group or even a professional association of workers. In this case, the group appears to have had a connection with the local gymnasion, though it also remains problematic that it otherwise does not have a more definite or precise identity, as evidenced by its simple name. Additionally, we know nothing of its organisation or durability.