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Author: Stella Skaltsa

CAPInv. 177: hoi technitai

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Aegean Islands
ii. Region Euboia
iii. Site Eretria

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ τεχνῖται (IG XII.9 207 and add. p. 176 + IG XII Suppl. p. 178 no. 207 + SEG 34: 896)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi technitai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 294 - 288 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:technitai: artists, including actors, musicians, poets and those involved in various ways with dramatic performance

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.9 207 and Add. p. 176 + IG XII Suppl. p. 178 no. 207 + SEG 34: 896 (294-288 BC)
Note See also:
Kotsidu 2000: no. 189
Le Guen 2001: TE 1 (citing various references)
Online Resources IG XII.9 207
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Law in Greek concerning the contracting of technitai for the organization of festivals (Dionysia and Demetria) in Euboia.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble stele. H. 122 x W. 74 x Th. 11 cm.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found near the temple of Apollo Daphnephoros in Eretria.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The technitai of this inscription have not yet been organized in a koinon (Klaffenbach 1914: 11; Poland 1934: 2497; Pickard-Cambridge 1988: 281; Aneziri 2003: 52-3).
iii. Bibliography Aneziri, S. (2003), Die Vereine der dionysischen Techniten im Kontext der hellenistischen Gesellschaft. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte, Organisation und Wirkung der hellenistischen Technitenvereine. (Historie Suppe. 163). Stuttgart.
Klaffenbach, G. (1914), Symbolae ad historiam collegiorum artificum Bacchiorum. Diss. Berlin.
Pickard-Cambridge, A.W. (1988), The dramatic festivals of Athens. 3rd edn. Oxford.
Poland, F. (1934), s.v. technitai, RE V2 2: 2473-2578.
Stephanis, I. (1984), 'Ο ευβοϊκός νόμος για τη μίσθωση των διονυσιακών τεχνιτών (IG XII 9, 207)', EpistEpetThess 22: 499-564.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Discarded
Note According to scholarly opinion, by that time (early iii c. BC) the technitai were not yet organised in a private association.