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Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1863: synodos Herakleou Kallinikou kai Nemeseos

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
iii. Site Mareia (Kom el-Idris), Western coast

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) σύνοδος Ἡρακλέου Καλλινίκου καὶ Νεμέσεως (SEG 24: 1233, ll. 3-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) synodos Herakleou Kallinikou kai Nemeseos

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 8 BC - 36 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Theophoric:Heracles Kallinikos and Nemesis
iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος synodos
Note synodos: SEG 24: 1233, ll. 3-4

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 24: 1233 (8 BC or AD 36)
Note Other publications: SB X 10714; SEG 54: 1714 (1) descr.
Online Resources SEG XXIV 1233
TM 104542
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication in Greek to the koinon Mareotou of a statue of Nemesis by the synagogos kai prostates of the synodos Herakleou Kallinikou kai Nemeseos.
i.c. Physical format(s) statue base

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership Orontes son of Epicharos; συναγογὸς καὶ προσ<τά>της synagogos kai prostates (ll. 2-3)

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship Dedication of a statue of Nemesis: Νέμεσιν ἀνέθηκεν Nemesin anetheken (l. 7).
Deities worshipped Nemesis

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction If the koinon Mareotou (l. 6: CAPInv. 1864) to which this dedication is made is not the same synodos Herakleou Kallinikou kai Nemeseos, then it would appear that we have an indication of an interaction between two associations in the community.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Łajtar, A. (1992) "Dedication of the prostates of a synodos from Alexandria." JJP 22: 29-36 (p. 32, no. 10);
Fraser, P. M. (1964) "Inscriptions from Greco-Roman Egypt." Berytus 15: 71-93 (esp. 84-85 no.14)

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Given the similarities between this form of dedication and others (see Łajtar 1992), it is probable that this is a private association.