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Last Updated on 21 May 2019

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 1796: to koinon ton synagoniston

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) τὸ κοινὸν τῶν συναγωνιστῶν (CIG 3068, l. B1)
ii. Full name (transliterated) to koinon ton synagoniston

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 190 (?) - 160 (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:synagonistai were assistants of the Dionysiac actors, but in this case, the designation probably extended towards musicians etc, as Kraton the aulos-player is called "one of them" (l. 13; cf. Aneziri 2003: 325)
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν, koinon
Note koinon: CIG 3068, ll. B1, B3, B14, B16, B18, B38

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) CIG 3068 (190 (?) - 160 (?) BC)
Online Resources CIG 3068
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorary decree, Greek
ii. Source(s) provenance Teos

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials ἄρχοντες, archontes (CIG 3068, l. A21): This may be the leaders of the association, but the plural may also refer to the magistrates in general.
Known practice of appointment Ll. 21-22 specify that the archontes were annually chosen from among the members

X. ACTIVITIES

ii. Meetings and events L. 15 mentions a "common banquet" (κοινὸν δεῖπνον, koinon deipnon).
iii. Worship The stele is to be erected at the Dionysion (l. 25).
Deities worshipped Dionysos
iv. Honours/Other activities Kraton is to be crowned during the association's banquet and in the theatre (ll. 14-16).

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The association joins the Asian and the Isthmian koina of technitai in honoring Kraton, presumably because it was a branch of the Asian koinon (see evaluation below).

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Aneziri, S. (2003), Die Vereine der dionysischen Techniten im Kontext der hellenistischen Gesellschaft. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte, Organisation und Wirkung der hellenistischen Technitenvereine. Stuttgart.

Boulay, Th. (2013), ‘Les « groupes de référence » au sein du corps civique de Téos’, in P. Fröhlich, and P. Hamon (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIe siècle apr. J.-C.), Genève: 251-75.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Aneziri 2003: 324-8 has convincingly argued that the synagonistai were an association on their own terms, with their own decisions and their own communal resources, while at the same time being integrated into the Asian branch of the Dionysiac technitai. This explains why they could convey separate honors for Kraton, but with reference to his tenure as priest and agonothetes of the Asian koinon.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain