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Author: Ilias Arnaoutoglou

CAPInv. 245: koinon orgeonon

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Attica with Salamis
ii. Region Attica
iii. Site Athens

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοινὸν ὀργεώνων (Agora 19, Poletai P5, ll. 30-31)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon orgeonon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 367 / 366 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:orgeones
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν, koinon
Note koinon: Agora 19, Poletai P5, ll. 30-31

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Agora 19, Poletai P5 (367/6 BC)
Note Ed. pr. Hesperia 10 (1941) 14 no. 1.
Other publications: SEG 12: 100; SEG 41: 100; NChoix 26; Lambert no. 1993, T10.
Cf. SEG 21: 563; SEG 28: 118; SEG 31: 128; SEG 37: 110, 1782bis; SEG 40: 151bis; SEG 46: 202, 770-3; SEG 48: 145. BE 1991, no. 163; 1998, no. 158.
Online Resources Agora 19 P5
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek inscription recording poletai accounts.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble stele, measuring 0.92x0,36-40m.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found beneath the floor of the Tholos in a fill of late fourth and early third century BC, now in Athenian Agora (I 5509).

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials Αἰσχίνης Μελιτεύς, Aischines Meliteus, might have held some sort of an office, thus representing the group to the proceedings against Theosebes (confiscation and sale of his real property).

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

ii. Realty The association held a security over a house for the amount of the loan.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note Αἰσχίνης Μελιτεύς, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (69).
iii. Age Adults
iv. Status The individual representing the group is a citizen.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction This testimony is significant in many respects, since it provides evidence for more than one mode of interaction of the association in the Athenian society. First of all, the association could afford to lend money to (non-)members. Secondly, it could secure the repayment of the loan by accepting a real security. Thirdly, it could pursue the legal satisfaction of its claim once the son of the deceased debtor absconded before the end of the trial for impiety.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The association appears in the list of confiscated properties auctioned when Polyzelos was eponymous archon.
iii. Bibliography Arnaoutoglou, I. (2003), Thusias heneka kai sunousias. Private religious associations in Hellenistic Athens. Athens: 58-59.
Ferguson, W. (1944), ‘The Attic orgeones’, HThR 37: 61-140.
Finley, M. (1953), ‘Multiple charges on real property in Athenian law. New evidence from an Agora inscription’, in Studi in onore di V. Arangio-Ruiz. Naples: III, 473-91.
Ismard, P. (2010), La cité des réseaux. Athènes et ses associations VIe – Ier siècle av. J.-C.. Paris: 158.
Lambert, S. (1993), The phratries of Attica. Ann Arbor.
Millett, P. (1991), Lending and borrowing in ancient Athens. Cambridge: 177.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Despite the contention of ed. pr. that the group of orgeones were part of the phratry of Medontidai (a thiasos), there is no hard evidence to substantiate it. Therefore, it remains more plausible that they formed a private association.