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Author: Paschalis Paschidis

CAPInv. 743: hoi Droiophoroi

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Macedonia
ii. Region Mygdonia
iii. Site Thessalonike

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ Δροιοφόροι (IG X.2.1 260, ll. C11-12)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi Droiophoroi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:Droiophoroi: from the Dionysiac ritual of dendrophoria. See also CAPInv. 740 (XII.i: Comments).
iii. Descriptive terms θίασος, thiasos
Note thiasos: ll. IG X.2.1 260 C11-12 and 15-17

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG X.2.1 260 (iii AD)
Note See also: GRA I 81; Jaccottet II no. 22
Online Resources IG X.2.1 260 and AGRW ID 2501
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek funerary inscription
i.c. Physical format(s) Altar, with a relief of a standing, draped woman on the front side. The inscription is engraved on the moulding of the front side and on the right and left sides of the altar.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found reused at the Church of the Acheiropoietos in Thessaloniki. Edson (1948: 178-80) assumed that the sanctuary of Dionysos must have been located at the Acheiropoietos; see, however, Vitti 1996: 90-1.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iv. Endowments On Euphrosyne's endowment, and on the conditions under which it will revert to the association of the Dryophoroi, see the comments on the Prinophoroi in CAPInv. 740 (VIII.ii: Reality and VIII.iv: Endowments).

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities On the commemorative ritual for the priestess Euphrosyne, see the comments on the Prinophoroi CAPInv. 740 (VIII.iv: Honours).

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction On the relationship between the Prinophoroi and the Dryophoroi, see the comments on the CAPInv. 740 (XI.i: Local interaction).

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland B 58
iii. Bibliography Edson, C. (1948), ‘Cults of Thessalonica (Macedonica III)’, HThR 41: 153-204, esp. 165-77.
Nigdelis, P.M. (2010), ‘Voluntary Associations in Roman Thessalonike: in Search of Identity and Support in a Cosmpolitan Society’, in L. Nasrallah, Ch. Bakirtzis and S. Friesen (eds.), From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonike: Studies in Religion and Archaeology, Cambridge Mass., London: 13-47, esp. 15, n. 7.
Perdrizet, P. (1910), Cultes et mythes du Pangée, Paris: 88
Vitti, M. (1996), Η πολεοδομική εξέλιξη της Θεσσαλονίκης, από την ίδρυσή της έως τον Γαλέριο, Thessaloniki.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note See the comments on the Prinophoroi in CAPInv. 740 (XI.i: Local interaction).