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Last Updated on 13 Mar 2017

Author: Maria-Gabriella Parissaki

CAPInv. 1750: he phamilia

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Thrace
ii. Region Aegean Thrace
iii. Site Maroneia

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἡ φαμιλία (I.Thrac.Aeg. E167, l. 1)
ii. Full name (transliterated) he phamilia

III. DATE

i. Date(s) iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

iii. Descriptive terms φαμιλία, phamilia
Note phamilia: I.Thrac.Aeg. E167, l. 1

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Thrac.Aeg. E167 (iii AD)
Online Resources I.Thrac.Aeg E167
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscription in Greek, set up by the phamilia for the retiarius Hyacinthus (l. 3).
i.c. Physical format(s) Small marble stele (0.38 X 0.23)
ii. Source(s) provenance The stele is reported to have been found at "Stryme" (according to the archives of the Ephoreia of Antiquities at Komotini), that is the archaeological site at the Molyvoti peninsula. The editors of I.Thrac.Aeg. suggested that the stone is probably to be attributed to Maroneia, since Stryme has yielded no substantial archaeological finds of the Roman period up to this day.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status Hyacinthus ῥητιάριος, rhetiarius (ll. 3-4): this was a group of gladiators.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Tsoka, A. (2013-2014), ‘Επιτύμβια στήλη μονομάχου από την Πλωτινόπολη (Διδυμότειχο)’, Tekmeria 12: 81-98.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note On the evidence of the term phamilia.