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Author: Annelies Cazemier

CAPInv. 925: U-AEI-015

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Aegean Islands
ii. Region Delos
iii. Site Delos

II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-AEI-015

III. DATE

i. Date(s) s. ii BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

iii. Descriptive terms σύνο[δος], syno[dos]

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Délos 2082 (s. ii BC)
Note old ed.:
Hatzfeld 1912: 204, no. 17
see also:
Roussel 1915-16: 202, no. 212
RICIS 202/0383
Trümper 2011: 77, no. 8
Online Resources I.Délos 2082
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Fragmentary honorary text. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) marble fragment
ii. Source(s) provenance Sarapieion C

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status The person honored by the synodos was a Roman freedman (see 'Honours/other activities'); it is not clear whether he was a member of the association.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The synodos seem to have honored a Roman called Dekmos Gessios / Decimus Gessius (I.Délos 2082, l. 2), a freedman who is otherwise known as one of the members of the Italian association of Hermaistai, ca. 125 BC (I.Délos 1733, l. 4; 11; cf. CAPInv. 890; see also I.Délos 2124, l. 1).

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The synodos honored a Roman freedman who was a member of the Italian community of Delos (see 'Honours/other activities').

XII. NOTES

i. Comments Homolle (1879: 374, no. 14; cf. Poland 1909: 560, no. B 166b) restored [ἡ] σύνο[δος τῶν Τυριών
εμπόρων] καὶ να[υκλήρων], [he] syno[dos ton Tyrion emporon] kai na[ukleron] (ll. 1-2) and suggested an identification with the known association of Tyrian emporoi and naukleroi (CAPInv. 12), but this is questionable. Roussel and Launey (eds. of I.Delos 1799)
render the beginning of the text as [ἡ] σύνοδ̣[ος τῶν -- -- -- ἐμπόρων?] καὶ να[υκλήρων?], [he] synod[os ton -- -- -- emporon?] kai na[ukleron]. Cf. Roussel 1987: 95, n. 5.
iii. Bibliography Baslez, M.-F. (1977), Recherches sur les conditions de pénétration et de diffusion des religions orientales à Délos (IIe-Ier s. avant notre ère). Paris.
Hatzfeld, J. (1912), 'Les Italiens résidant à Délos mentionnés dans les inscriptions de l'île', BCH 36: 5-218.
Roussel, P. (1915-16), Les cultes égyptiens à Délos du IIIe au Ier siècle av. J.-C. Paris.
Trümper, M. (2011), ‘Where the non-Delians met in Delos: the meeting-places of foreign associations and ethnic communities in late Hellenistic Delos’, in O.M. van Nijf and R. Alston (eds.) Political culture in the Greek city after the classical age, Leuven: 49-100.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Although I.Délos 2082 is fragmentary, the terminology (synodos) combined with the nature of the text (honorary) makes it very likely that the inscription concerns an association.