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Author: Andreas Victor Walser

CAPInv. 1003: Temeneitai tou Apollonos tou Didymeos kai tes Demetros tes Karpophorou

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [Τεμ]ε̣ν̣εῖται τοῦ Ἀπόλλω̣[νος τοῦ Διδυμέ]ως καὶ τῆς Δήμητ[ρος τῆς Καρπο]φόρου (Milet VI.2 800)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Temeneitai tou Apollonos tou Didymeos kai tes Demetros tes Karpophorou

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 47 / 46 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Theophoric:Apollon Didymeus
Demeter Karpophoros
Topographical:Temeneitai

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Milet VI.2 800
Note Herrmann 1980: 230-233 c)
Online Resources Herrmann 1980: 230-233 c)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Inscription fragment, possibly of a list of members. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Fragment of a plate or stele

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The text mentions in unclear context a μνημεῖον, mnemeion (Milet VI.2 800 l. 7), most probably a tomb.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members Τεμενεῖται, Temeneitai
iv. Officials χρυσονόμος, chrysonomos
γραμματεύς, grammateus

The chrysonomos was the treasurer, the grammateus the secretary of the association. Cf. Herrmann 1980: 226-227 with n. 9.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds Since the chrysonomos was the treasurer of the association, it must have had some kind of treasury.

X. ACTIVITIES

ii. Meetings and events The list of the members is styled as the record of a meeting (οἵδε συνήχθησαν Τεμενῖται, hoide synechthesan Temenitai). This formula suggests a meeting in the form of a banquet (Herrmann, Milet VI.2: p. 93 with reference to Ph. Gauthier, BE 1991, 426).
iii. Worship Both the designation of the members as Temenitai and the gods listed in its name demonstrate the association's religious character.
Deities worshipped Apollon Didymeus
Demeter Karpophoros
iv. Honours/Other activities Since the fragmentary inscription mentions a tomb (μνημεῖον, mnemeion), the association was likely involved in a funerary cult.

The provenance of the inscription from a necropolis suggests that the association was also involved in funerary activities, though nothing in the inscription itself attests to that.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments On groups of temenizontes, Temenitai in Miletus in general cf. CAPInv. 998.
iii. Bibliography Herrmann, P. (1980), 'Urkunden milesischer Temenitai', MDAI(I) 30: 223-239.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The religious character and the funerary cult of the association makes it a private association.