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Author: Damiana Baldassarra

CAPInv. 1107: [koinon (?) tan] eraneistan (l. ton eraniston)

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Greece with the Ionian Islands
ii. Region Akarnania
iii. Site Thyrreion

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [κοινὸν (?) τᾶν] ἐρανειστᾶν (l. τῶν ἐρανιστῶν) (Antonetti and Funke forthcoming: nr. T 15, l. 2).
ii. Full name (transliterated) [koinon (?) tan] eraneistan (l. ton eraniston)

III. DATE

i. Date(s) s. ii BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Other:ἔρανος, eranos
iii. Descriptive terms [κοινόν], koinon (?)
Note The word koinon is supplied by the editors
koinon: nr. T 15, l. 1

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Antonetti and Funke forthcoming: nr. T 15 (second half II BC)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek Document of ownership
i.c. Physical format(s) Block of white limestone
ii. Source(s) provenance Walled inscription; now at the Archaeological Museum of Thyrion (without inventar nr.)

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The inscription provides a description of a cultic room with an altar with dimensions (ll. 4-6): [- - - καὶ] τὰ περὶ τὸμ βω[μὸν | - - - πλάτο]ς πόδες Λ̣ μῆ[κος | πόδες - - -], [... kai] ta peri tom bo[mon | ... plato]s poses 30 me[kos | poses ...].

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members ἐρανεισταί, l. ἐρανισταί, eranistai (l. 2)

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

ii. Realty The koinon owned a cultic room with an altar (30 foot in length, width lost in lacuna)

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note The attested members were men.
iii. Age Adults

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The passage is fragmentary, but the koinon (?) of the eranistai perhaps worshiped a deity, who has been tentatively restored as θ[εᾶς Ἀφροδεῖ]τας th[eas Aphrodei]tas.
Deities worshipped Aphrodite (?)

XII. NOTES

i. Comments θ[εᾶς Ἀφροδεῖ]τας is integrated on apparatus by D. Summa; according to the authors the thickness of the block suggests that it was even used as wall block in the hiera oikia of the Association.
iii. Bibliography Antonetti C., Funke P. (eds.), Baldassarra D., Cavalli E., Crema F., Freitag K., Haake M., Knäppe K., Scharff S. (co-eds.) (forthcoming), Le collezioni epigrafiche dei Musei di Agrinio e Tirreo/Die epigraphischen Sammlungen der Museen Agrinion und Thyrreion. II, Die epigraphische Sammlung der Museum Thyrreion (= Akarnanien Forschungen 2)

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note On the basis of parallels (see CAPInv. 1076) it is probable that this group was a private association.