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Last Updated on 20 May 2019

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 1608: hoi en toi topoi pragmateuomenoi Androkleidai

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Ionia
iii. Site Ephesos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ ἐν τῷ τόπῳ πραγματευόμενοι Ἀνδροκλεῖδαι (I.Eph(esos) 3079, ll. 11-14)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi en toi topoi pragmateuomenoi Androkleidai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 132 - 211 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:pragmateuomenoi
Theophoric:Androkleidai
Topographical:en toi topoi

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Eph(esos) 3079 (132 - 211 AD)
Online Resources I.Eph(esos) 3079
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific decree, Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Part of a marble base
ii. Source(s) provenance Agora, lower Eastern hall

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship Androklos was the mythical founding hero of Ephesos; on his presence in epigraphic and numismatic sources, see Rathmayr 2010. The association might have had a cult of Androklos, but the name could also be used in a more loose fashion - all Ephesians were Androkleidai after all. It might also not be irrelevant that the honorific decree refers to P. Vedius Papianus Antoninus as κτίστης τῆς πατρίδος ἡμῶν, ktistes tes patridos hemon (ll. 9-11), which may have have led the association to bring in as an analogy the name of the city’s other, mythical κτίστης, ktistes.
Deities worshipped Androklos (?)

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction This is another instance of a professional group setting up honors that were decreed not by itself, but by the city, indicating a quasi-official status.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Rathmayr, E. (2010), ‘Die Präsenz des Ktistes Androklos in Ephesos’, AAWW 145: 19-60.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note Professional associations in the 2nd/3rd century were often very close to the official civic institutions, but they probably remained essentially private associations. The nature of this group is, however, less clear.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain