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Author: Fabienne Marchand

CAPInv. 994: hoi techn[itai hoi syn]telountes eis Helikona

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I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ τεχν̣[ῖται οἱ συν]τελοῦντες εἰς Ἑλικῶνα (I.Thespiai 165, ll. 8-9)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi techn[itai hoi syn]telountes eis Helikona

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 175 - 90 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

i. Name in other forms οἱ τεχνῖται οἱ [συν]τελοῦντες εἰς Ἑλικῶ[να] (I.Thespiai 170, ll. 7-8)
ii. Name elements
Geographical:eis Helikona
Professional:technitai

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Thespiai 165 (c. 175-150 BC or later)
I.Thespiai 170 (c. 110-90 BC)
Note I.Thespiai 165:
Roesch 1982: 189-90, no. 33
Le Guen I no. 23 B
Aneziri no. Gb2
Manieri 2009: Thes. 23
Marchand 2016: 114
I.Thespiai 170:
Roesch 1982: 191, no. 37 (SEG 32: 437)
Le Guen I no. 23 E
Aneziri no. Gb6
Manieri 2009: Thes. 30
Online Resources I.Thespiai 165
I.Thespiai 170
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script I.Thespiai 165 and 170: victors list at the festival of the Mouseia. Both inscriptiones are Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) I.Thespiai 165: stele of white limestone, broken to the right and at the bottom.
I.Thespiai 170: stele of local limestone, broken at the bottom and the the left.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members τεχνῖται, technitai
iv. Officials Priests: the local branch of the Isthmian technitai based in the Helicon send to the festival of the Mouseia a priest of the Muses (I.Thespiai 165, ll. 4-6). The Helikonian technitai do not send priests of Dionysos as I.Thespiai 165, ll. 8-10, heavily restored, suggests. The restoration of I.Thespiai 165 no longer stands (see Marchand 2016): we are instead dealing with pyrphoroi.
Pyrphoroi: the Helikonian technitai send two pyrphoroi to the festival of the Mouseia, one of the Muses and one of Dionysos (I.Thespiai 165, ll. 8-11 with new readings by Marchand 2016; I.Thespiai 170, ll. 7-12). On pyrphoroi, who are attested among technitai in the Greek world only at Thespiai: Aneziri: 137.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
iii. Age Adults
iv. Status Free / citizens

X. ACTIVITIES

ii. Meetings and events Participation in the Thespian Mouseia. On this, see Aneziri (2003): 271-83 and Aneziri (2007): 71-5.
iii. Worship The fact that the technitai of the Helicon send a priest of the Muses and pyrphoroi of the Muses and of Dionysos to the Mouseia implies that they were worshipping both. On the technitai and Dionysos and the Muses: Le Guen II: 84-6.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments Le Guen II: 22-3 and Roesch 1982: 193-4: the fact that in I.Thespiai 170 only delegates of the local technitai of the Helicon and none from the main branch appear may be related to the joint defection between 118 and 112 BC of the Theban technitai with some technitai from other Boiotian cities (see CAPInv. 989). However, this local company of Helikonian technitai could potentially have been founded after the dissolution of the Boiotian Confederacy in 172/1, or after 146, when the Thespian struggled to organise the Mouseia without the support of the Confederacy (see detailed discussion in Marchand 2016; cf. Manieri 2009: 384-5). In this light, a later date for I.Thespiai 165, closer to that of I.Thespiai 170, would be possible.
iii. Bibliography Aneziri, S. (2003), Die Vereine der dionysischen Techniten im Kontext der hellenistischen Gesellschaft. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte, Organisation und Wirkung der hellenistischen Technitenvereine. Stuttgart.
Aneziri, S. (2007), ‘The Organisation of Music Contests in the Hellenistic Period and Arstists' Participation: An Attempt at Classification’, in P. Wilson (ed.), The Greek Theatre and Festivals. Documentary Studies. Oxford: 67-84.
Le Guen, B. (2001), Les associations de technites dionysiaques à l’époque hellénistique. II. Corpus documentaire. Nancy.
Manieri, A. (2009), Agoni Poetico-musicali nella Grecia Antica, 1. Beozia. Pisa.
Marchand, F. (2016), ‘Les Technites dionysiaques de l’Hélicon’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 197: 111-118.
Roesch, P. (1982), Etudes béotiennes. Paris.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note !EDITOR: missing!
ii. Historical authenticity Certain (compelling epigraphical evidence)