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Last Updated on 17 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1928: hoi linemporoi

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
ii. Nome Oxyrhynchites (U19)
iii. Site Oxyrhynchus

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ λινέμποροι (P.Oxy. XII 1414 ll. 4 and 7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi linemporoi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 271 / 272 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:linemporoi

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Oxy. XII 1414 (AD 271/2)
Online Resources P.Oxy. XII 1414
TM 21824
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek papyrus document; a record of proceedings of the Oxyrhynchus council

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iii. Income Payment from council for work to be completed.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The group has been contracted by the council to complete work for a fee.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments No explicit mention of a synodos or koinon, though the literature on this text has assumed that the negotiations regarding contracts between the council and groups of linen merchants and linen weavers deals with associations.
iii. Bibliography Alston, R. (2002) The city in Roman and Byzantine Egypt. London and New York.
Gällnö, S. (2013) '(In)visible Spinners in the Documentary Papyri from Roman Egypt', in M. Gleba and J Pásztókai-Szeőke (eds.), Making textiles in pre-Roman and Roman times: people, places, identities. Oxford: 161-70 (esp. 165).
Gibbs, M. A. (forthcoming) “Collective action, trade associations and the state in Roman Egypt,” in D. Rathbone and A. Wilson (eds.) Documents and the Mechanics of Roman Rule. Cambridge.
Harland, Philip A. (2003), Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations. Claiming a Place in Mediterranean Society. Minneapolis: esp. 152-153.
Venticinque, P. (2015) "Courting the Associations: Cooperation, Conflict and Interaction in Roman Egypt." In V. Gabrielsen and C. A. Thomsen (eds.), Private Associations and the Public Sphere Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 9-11 September 2010. Copenhagen: 314-40.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note Though there is no mention of a synodos or koinon, it is not uncommon for a group to simply be identified as the linen merchants, weavers, etc. Alston 2002: 207-212 includes the group along with other associations as have others, though Gibbs and Adams have expressed concerns.