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Last Updated on 09 Jul 2019

Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 415: he psilagnapho[n synergasia/ symbiosis]

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἡ ψιλαγνάφω[ν συνεργασία/ συμβίωσις] (TAM V.3 1519, b)
ii. Full name (transliterated) he psilagnapho[n synergasia/ symbiosis]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii - iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:Fine fuller, Feinwalker (Dittmann-Schöne, TAM); carpet-cleaner (LSJ)
iii. Descriptive terms συμβίωσις, symbiosis
perhaps also [συνεργασία], [synergasia]
Note symbiosis: TAM V.3 1519, b

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.3 1519 (ii - iii AD)
Note See also:
Keil and Premerstein 1911: no. 15
EA 26: 18
Dittmann-Schöne III.5.3
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Building's inscription in a stoa (?) dedicated together with an exedra by the association. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) two architrave blocks
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in Arably Düz Mahalle, in the Kogamos valley between Sardeis, Iulia Gordos and Maionia.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

i. Archaeological remains The blocks are part of the architrave that was 3.19 m. long and belonged to the stoa probably mentioned in the inscriptions.
ii. References to buildings/objects In the inscription there is mention of a stoa(?) and of an exedra inside it.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

ii. Realty The association may own the exedra and even part of the stoa that it has built, as its meeting or handling place. Cf. associations rooms built in stoai in Ephesos.
iii. Income The building is accomplished with the πρόσοδος (prosodos, income) of the association.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction Different craftmen and traders associations probably had their place in the stoa mentioned in the inscription (cf. Ephesos).

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Keil, J., and von Premerstein, A. (1911), Bericht über eine zweite Reise in Lydien ausgeführt 1908, (Denkschriften Akad. Wien Band 54.2). Vienna: 13, no. 15.
Petzl, G. (1996), ‘Neue Inschriften aus Lydien’, EA 26: 1-30, esp. 18, n. 81.
Dittmann-Schöne, I. (2010), Die Berufsvereine in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasiens. 2nd. ed. Regensburg: 214.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note It is a craftmen association.