| i. | Geographical area | Aegean Islands |
| ii. | Region | Lemnos, but likely from Chios (Robert 1929: 32-38) |
| iii. | Site | The stone was kept in a private house in the village Plaka of Lemnos; according to the owner it was found in Vriokastro (Cousin and Dürrbach 1885: 62). It was then built in the church of St George (IG XII. 8 16) |
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CAPInv. 1590: hoi ergastai [- - -]
I. LOCATION
II. NAME
| i. | Full name (original language) | οἱ ἐργασταὶ [- - -] (IG XII.8 16 l. 2) |
| ii. | Full name (transliterated) | hoi ergastai [- - -] |
III. DATE
| i. | Date(s) | i AD |
IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY
| ii. | Name elements |
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V. SOURCES
| i. | Source(s) | IG XII. 8 16 and Add. p. VII, IG XIIs., p. 147 (i BC) |
| Online Resources | IG XII,8 16 | |
| i.a. | Source type(s) | Epigraphic source(s) |
| i.b. | Document(s) typology & language/script | Honorary inscription, in Greek |
| i.c. | Physical format(s) | Block of marble, broken on the upper left part |
X. ACTIVITIES
| iv. | Honours/Other activities | The ergastai [- - -] and another group, whose name is not preserved (CAP 1888), offer a crown to the officers responsible for ton kata ten agoran |
XII. NOTES
| i. | Comments |
Based on the similarities of IG XII. 8 6 with SEG XVII 382 A (CAP Inv. 1589) and with a series of other Chian inscriptions, Robert convincingly argued that IG XII. 8 16 was of Chian origin. Furthermore, on the basis of SEG XVII 382 A he suggested the following restoration of ll. 1-2: [οἱ ναύκληροι κ]αὶ οἱ ἐργασταὶ | [οἱ ἐπὶ τοῦ λιμένος] (see Robert 1929: 37). The inscription to my opinion can be dated by letter-forms to the i AD. The characteristic letter omega, as it is shown in the facsimile published by Cousin-Dürrbach is very similar to the omega which occurs in a series of Chian inscriptions of the 1 c. A.D. (the so-called Cl. Metrodora's inscriptions, for which see Robert 1938: 128-34). One of the honorands is the nauarch Neileus son of Pamphilos, and adopted son of Neileus. The prosopographical identification suggested by Dunst (Dunst 1958: 185) of the here attested Neileus with the honorand [- - -]λεύς ) in Robert 1929: 36 C (see CAP Inv. 1587) is tentative. A strong argument against this identification is that the person in IG XII. 8 16 is an adopted son of Neileus. He could well be a descendant of [- - -]λεύς ). For the officers responsible for the administration of the agora see CAP Inv. 1587 (Comments). |
| ii. | Poland concordance | Poland Z 13 |
| iii. | Bibliography |
Cousin, G., Dürrbach, F. (1885), ῾Inscriptions de Lemnos’, BCH 9: 62-3 no. 6. IG XII. 8 16 ll. 2-3 and Add. p. VII, IG XIIs., p. 147. Robert, L (1929), ῾Trois inscriptions de l'Archipel’, REG 42: 32-7. Dunst, G. (1958), ῾ΧΙΑΚΑ’, ΑPF 16: 185. McCabe, D. and Brownson, J. (1986), Chios Inscriptions. Texts and List. The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton: no. 192. Cf. Robert, L. (1938), Etudes Epigraphiques et Philologiques, Paris: 128-33. |
XIII. EVALUATION
| i. | Private association | Certain |
| Note | The professional terminology of the association ensures the private character of the association. |
