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Last Updated on 08 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 384: hoi bourseis

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ βουρσεῖς (TAM V.2 986, l. 7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi bourseis

III. DATE

i. Date(s) iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:Tanners

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.2 986 (2nd. quarter of III AD)
Note See also:
Dittmann-Schöne III.1.12
Online Resources TAM V.2 986
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific inscription dedicated by the association to an important member of the Roman elite. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Base (?)
ii. Source(s) provenance Thyateira

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The association must have funds to be able to erect honorific inscriptions.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The association honours M. Gaios Likinios Rouphinos, vir clarissimus, consular, friend of the emperor,
founder and benefactor (κτίστην καὶ εὐεργέτην, ktistes kai euergetes, ll. 4-5) of the fatherland. The same person is honoured by the gardeners of Thyateira (Dittmann-Schone III.1.16).

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction Since the association erects an honorific inscription for a founder and euergetes of the fatherland, it is presumable that it has interaction with the city. On the importance of honorific inscriptions set up by private associations in order to commemorate the relationships that they maintained with the leading members of society cf. van Nijf 1997: 73f.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments This inscription is one of the cases where there is no concrete benefaction by the honorand to the association, and may be explained just as a way for the association to show its relationship with the leading members of the city. Cf. van Nijf, op. cit.
iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 189.
van Nijf, O. (1997), The civic world of professional associations in the Roman East. Amsterdam: 73f.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note It is a workmanship-association.