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Last Updated on 01 Mar 2017

Author: Paschalis Paschidis

CAPInv. 42: U-MAC-001

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Macedonia
ii. Region Pieria
iii. Site Dion

II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-MAC-001

III. DATE

i. Date(s) Imp. (?)

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Sotiriadis 1930: 50 (imp. ?)
Note Sotiriadis 1930: 50 mentions a funerary plaque bearing the end of a name ([---]ιμος, –imos) and then the term ἀρχισυνάγωγος, archisynagogos. The inscription, which appears never to have been published, is otherwise unknown.
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary Greek inscription (?)
i.c. Physical format(s) Plaque
ii. Source(s) provenance The inscription was found during excavations in the southeast area of Dion.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership ἀρχισυνάγωγος, archisynagogos

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Sotiriadis, G. (1930), 'Ἀνασκαφαὶ Δίου Μακεδονίας', PAAH: 36-51.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note Sotiriadis 1930: 50, the excavator mentioning the otherwise unknown inscription, took the mention of an archisynagogos to point to a Jewish community. Given, however, that the term archisynagogos is most often used in Roman Macedonia for the chief official of a religious association, the inscription should probably be taken as evidence for such an association. Moreover, since an archisynagogos leads the association of Zeus Hypsistos at nearby Pydna (CAPInv. 41), probably incorporated to the territory of the Roman colony of Dion, and since the cult (and possibly an association) of Zeus Hypsistos is attested at Dion (CAPInv. 43), the archisynagogos of Sotiriadis 1930: 50 may be the chief official of an association of the god.