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Last Updated on 09 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1440: synodos onelaton

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) σύνοδος ὀνηλατῶν (P.Athen. 4 l. 1)
ii. Full name (transliterated) synodos onelaton

III. DATE

i. Date(s) i AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:onelatai
iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος synodos
Note synodos: P.Athen. 4 l. 1

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Athen. 41 (I AD)
Online Resources P.Athen. 41
TM 25225
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script list of payments for wine from members of a guild for the month of Pharmouthi in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) papyrus

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iii. Income Monthly payments for Pharmouthi for wine

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number 19
ii. Gender Men
Note The recorded names are male names.
v. Relations Several members here may be brothers or sons of other members, but definitive relations are impossible to see aside, perhaps from Saras who appears to be the brother of Areios and presumably the son of Ptolemaios.
vi. Proper names and physical features Areios, son of Ptolemaios; Saras (brother of Areios [?], son of Ptolemaios [?]); Didymos, son of Didymos; Arabas, son of Timokrates; Dioskoros, son of Papos; Apollonios, son of Fronto; Leonides, son of Philon; Sokrates, son of Timokrates; Apollo, son of Heron; Smar ... (?); Didymos son of Timokrates; Ptolemaios, son of Dorion; Karis, son of Ischyrion; Akousilaos, son of Didymos; Papos; Heron, son of Dionysios; Skapl... (?), son of Pekysis; Mysthas, son of Sokrates.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography van Minnen, P. (1987) 'Urban Craftsmen in Roman Egypt', MBAH 6.1: 31-88.
Last, R. (2015) The Pauline Church and the Corinthian Ekklēsia: Greco-Roman associations in comparative context. Cambridge: 129-30.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The contents of the papyrus, namely the monthly payment of dues, and the use of a relevant descriptive term, strongly suggest that this was a private association.