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Last Updated on 18 Jun 2019

Author: Stella Skaltsa

CAPInv. 971: U-WAM-015

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Aiolis
iii. Site Kyme

II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-WAM-015

III. DATE

i. Date(s) a. 213 AD

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Kyme 40 (after 213 AD)
Note Jaccottet 2003, vol. 2: no. 105
Online Resources I.Kyme 40
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedicatory inscription in Greek.
Aurelios Zosimos, chalkeus (black-smith) and Aurelios Herodes, archimystes made a dedication amounting to 600 denarii.
i.c. Physical format(s) Stele. H. 45 cm
ii. Source(s) provenance Kyme

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials ἀρχιμύστης, archimystes (l. 4)
Archimystes was at the head of a group of initiates; it is uncertain, however, whether this office pertains to a public or private mystery cult. A public cult of Dionysos is attested in Kyme already in the Hellenistic period (I.Kyme 2; 13; 89; SEG 32: 1243).

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland B *361
iii. Bibliography Kontoleon, A.E. (1890), Ανέκδοτοι Μικρασιαναί Επιγραφαί. Athens. p. 13 no. 24.

Ziebarth, (1900), 'Zu den griechischen Vereinsinschriften', RM 55: 501-519.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The presence of an archimystes alone, though indicative of a group of initiates with an internal organisation, seems insufficient for a secure identification of a private association, especially if we take into account the relatively late date of the inscription (after 213 AD) and the nature of the dedication (joint dedication by a chalkeus and an archimystes).