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Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 396: hoi artokopoi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ ἀρτοκόποι (TAM V.2 966, l. 2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi artokopoi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii - iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:The bakers

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.2 966 (half or 2nd. half of the 3d.C. AD)
Note See also:
Dittmann-Schöne III.1.18
Online Resources TAM V.2 966
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific inscription dedicated by the association to a member of the Roman elite. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble base (of a statue)
ii. Source(s) provenance Thyateira

VII. ORGANIZATION

v. Other staff One person is mentioned for having erected the honorific statue. Another person is mentioned, together with his son, for erecting the base at his expenses. It is nevertheless not stated if they are members or if they have any special charge in the association.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The association has erected an honorific statue ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων (ek ton idion, ll. 24-25) ("at its own expenses")

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The association honours G. Ioulios Ioulianos Tatianos, a man of an important family that has held many public offers, been ambassador to the emperor with great success on behalf of the city, and has held in the same year the offices of agoranomos and triteutes (ll. 7-8). He has adorned the city each year by means of his origin, his buildings and litourgiai, and he is considered founder (oikistes, l. 20) of 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.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction TAM V.2 966 is evidence of the relationship of the association with an important officer of the city, and of the interest of the association in persons that are benefactors of the whole city. In this case the relation is probably especially narrow because of the offices of agoranomos and triteutes (grain-measurer) of the honoured person, who has probably benefitted the bakers with good corn or financial help, as Dittmann-Schöne supposes. For the responsability of the agoranomos and the triteutes for the distribution of grain cf. Robert 1968: 1015; van Nijf 1997: 93 with reference to this inscription.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 192.
van Nijf, O. (1997), The civic world of professional associations in the Roman East. Amsterdam: 73f.
Robert, L. (1968), Opera Minora Selecta. Vol. 2. Amsterdam: 1015.

XIII. EVALUATION

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