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Last Updated on 20 May 2019

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 1693: phratra

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) φράτρα (Ritti and Baysal 2008: 178, no. 84, ll. 2-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) phratra

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 100 (?) - 200 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Kinship-related:phratra
iii. Descriptive terms φράτρα, phratra
Note phratra: Ritti and Baysal 2008: 178, no. 84, ll. 2-3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Ritti and Baysal 2008: 178, no. 84 (100 (?) - 200 (?) AD)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscription, Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) White marble stele, showing a male figure
ii. Source(s) provenance Museum of Denizli

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The group dedicates the stele as a memorial to Diodoros son of Menandros.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Ritti, T., and Baysal, H.H. (2008), Denizli-Hierapolis Arkeoloji Müzesi. Yunanca ve Latince Yazılı Eserlerin Kataloğu. Napoli.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note Diodoros was commemorated by "his own phratra", ἡ εἰδία φράτρα (he eidia phratra, ll. 1-3). Phratra can certainly designate a private association, as is likely the case in SEG 60: 1497 from Takina in Pisidia and in several other inscriptions. The evidence from Phrygia, and especially from the region around Hierapolis, is more complicated, because phratrai could apparently represent village communities. Cf. Ritti and Baysal 2008: 178, no. 83 - a similar memorial issued not by an association, but by a village community. Diodoros' "own phratra" could be "his" association, but it could also be his village or his family.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain