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Last Updated on 10 Jul 2019

Author: Fabienne Marchand

CAPInv. 981: toi syssitoi (l. hoi syssitoi)

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Central Greece
ii. Region Boiotia
iii. Site Thespiai

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) τοὶ σύσσιτοι (I.Thespiai 323, l. 1)
ii. Full name (transliterated) toi syssitoi (l. hoi syssitoi)

III. DATE

i. Date(s) l. iv BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

iii. Descriptive terms σύσσιτοι, syssitoi
Note syssitoi: I.Thespiai 323, l. 1

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Thespiai 323 (l. iv BC)
Note See also:
Roesch 1982: 142-6, no. 18, picture pl. XI (SEG 32: 505)
Van Straten 1995: no. R57 with picture fig. 78.
Online Resources I.Thespiai 323
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication in the Boiotian language by 8 syssitoi of a cippus to Zeus Karaios.
i.c. Physical format(s) Cippus measuring 108x25x24.5 cm decorated with one bucranium on the front, a boar's mandible on the left side, and a boar's skull on the right.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number 8 members appear in the nominative without patronymics (as is the custom at that time in Boiotia), with a vacat at the end.
ii. Gender Men
Note All 8 members are male.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The dedication to Zeus Karaios implies that they were worshipping the god.
Deities worshipped Probably Zeus Karaios

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Roesch, P. (1982), Etudes béotiennes. Paris.
Van Straten, F.T. (1995), Hiera Kala: images of animal sacrifice in archaic and classical Greece. Leiden.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology employed and the activities indicates a private association.