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Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 370: hoi apo basileon Attalou kai Eumenous katoikountes Mernouphyta Herakleastai

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Lydia
iii. Site Thyateira

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ ἀπὸ βασιλέων Ἀττάλου καὶ Εὐμένους κατοικοῦντες Μερνουφυτα Ἡρακληασταί (TAM V.2 959, ll. 2-7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi apo basileon Attalou kai Eumenous katoikountes Mernouphyta Herakleastai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii BC - ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:Heroic name based on Herakles
Geographical:the name gives also geographical indication
Personal:basileon Attalou kai Eumenous

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.2 959 (ii AD) For alternative dating see Cohen 1995 p. 218.
Note See also:
Keil and Premerstein 1911: 27-8, no. 51
Online Resources TAM V.2 959
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific inscription dedicated by the association to a man. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble round base
ii. Source(s) provenance Cemetery Kys-Dede-Mesarlyk at Ak Hissar in the territory of Thyateira.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The association must have funds to honour a man with an engraved basis and with a golden crown (l. 11).

X. ACTIVITIES

Deities worshipped Herakles
iv. Honours/Other activities The association honours Glykon son of Nikandros with a golden crown for being a man φιλότιμος (l. 12) (philotimos, "eager of honour").

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The association seems to represent the whole community of Mernouphyta, apparently a foundation of the Attalids, one of whose ancestors was Herakles. The name of the association (...ἀπὸ βασιλέων Ἀττάλου καὶ Εὐμένους..., ...apo basileon Attalou kai Eumenous...) demonstrates that this relation between the association and the attalid community is still remembered in the second century AD.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments It is not sure if this association has any relation to the one attested in the same city in the third century AD (TAM V.2 1007 et al.)
iii. Bibliography de Hoz, M.-P. (1999), Die Lydischen Kulte im Lichte der griechischen Inschriften. Bonn: no. 22.10.
Keil, J., and von Premerstein, A. (1911), Bericht über eine zweite Reise in Lydien ausgeführt 1908, (Denkschriften Akad. Wien Band 54.2). Vienna: 27-8, no. 51.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The name of the association indicates a narrow contact with the local public sphere, even if it is private as most cult associations are.