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Last Updated on 10 Jul 2019

Author: Fabienne Marchand

CAPInv. 943: hoi synachthentes hyp’ autou synthytai

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Central Greece
ii. Region Boiotia
iii. Site Thespiai

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ συναχθέντες ὑπ’ αυτοῦ συνθύται (SEG 53: 475, ll. 2-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi synachthentes hyp’ autou synthytai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) i - ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:The association is organised around the euergetes and probably founder of the association Publius Cornelius Vetranus.
iii. Descriptive terms συνθύται, synthytai
Note synthytai: SEG 53: 475, ll. 2-3

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 53: 475 (i - ii AD)
Note An.Ép. 2004: no. 1367: O. Salomies suggests to see a veteran in the euergetes instead of the cognomen Vetranus (l. 1: Πόπλιον Κορνήλιον οὐετρανόν, Poplion Kornelion ouetranon instead of Πόπλιον Κορνήλιον Οὐετρανόν, Poplion Kornelion Ouetranon). Contra: D. Knoepfler in BE 2006: no. 206.
On συναχθέντες, synachthentes see Poland 1909: 248, n. *.
Online Resources SEG 53: 475
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific inscription in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Funerary cippus of beige limestone, reused as a statue base; below the
inscription remains of a crown in relief.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Publius Cornelius Vetranus is probably the founder of the association.
iii. Members οἱ συναχθέντες ὑπ’ αυτοῦ συνθύται, hoi synachthentes hyp' autou synthytai

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note The members are probably male as οἱ συναχθέντες, hoi synachthentes seems to indicate.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities Honour of their euergetes and probably founder

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Poland, F. (1909), Geschichte des griechischen Vereinswesens. Leipzig.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The descriptive term (synthytai) and the activity of this association guarantees its private status.