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Last Updated on 14 May 2019

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 469: [n]eoi mystai

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Phrygia
iii. Site Dorylaion

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [ν]έοι μύσται (SEG 20: 37, l. 1)
ii. Full name (transliterated) [n]eoi mystai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii - iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:mystai
Status-related:neoi, presumably used to distinguish this association (positively) from another one.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 20: 37 (ii - iii AD)
Note See also:
MAMA V List: 183, no. 153
Jaccottet II no. 78
Online Resources MAMA V List: 183, no. 153
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedicatory inscription, greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble altar with reliefs on four sides
ii. Source(s) provenance Eskisehir

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship Dionysos is labelled epiphanes (l. 2). On the scenes depicted on the altar, cf. Haspels 1962 and Jaccottet 2003: 153-4.
Deities worshipped Dionysos

XII. NOTES

i. Comments On this and similar monuments from the same region, see Jaccottet 2003: 158-60.
iii. Bibliography Cole, S.G. (1991), ‘Dionysiac Mysteries in Phrygia in the Imperial Period’, EA 17: 41-9.
Haspels, C.H.E. (1962), ‘Relics of a Dionysiac Cult in Asia Minor’, AJA 66: 285-7.
Jaccottet, A.-F. (2003), Choisir Dionysos. Les associations dionysiaques ou la face cachée du dionysisme. 2 vols. Zürich.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The status of mystai-groups is not quite clear; most of probably served both the private interests of their members and the needs of civic religion.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain