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Last Updated on 27 Feb 2017

Author: Damiana Baldassarra

CAPInv. 1106: U-WGR-002

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Greece with the Ionian Islands
ii. Region Akarnania
iii. Site Palairos

II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-WGR-002

III. DATE

i. Date(s) s. ii BC

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Summa 2010 (second half II BC)
Note Old edition of IG IX I2 2, 451
Online Resources IG IX I2 2, 451
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek Dedication to Artemis
i.c. Physical format(s) Six joining fragments of a limestone stele
ii. Source(s) provenance The six joining fragments were found by E. Preuner in 1901 in situ: he did a squeeze of all the fragments. G. Klaffenbach could only see the lower fragment. In 2003 the archaeologists of the Plaghia-Halbinseln-Survey discovered again the upper fragment under the lower one: both of them were still in situ in the same place where Preuner saw them. Squeeze (E. Preuner, K. Hallof) at the Archive of Inscriptiones Graecae, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

i. Archaeological remains Sanctuary of Artemis; the stele lied 200 m far from the Artemis sanctuary on via sacra

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership Ἱερεύς, hiereus (priest),[Φι]λόξεν[ος] [Κλ]έωνο[ς] (ll. 1-2)
iii. Members 8 συ[νε?]ιερ[εῖς], synhiereis (fellow priests) (l. 3)
v. Other staff Sacrifice personnel: μά<γ>ειρος, mageiros (cook) (l. 21); διάκονος, diakonos (attendant) (l. 22); οἰνοχόος, oinochoos (cup bearer) (l. 23)

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number 9
ii. Gender Men
Note The attested names are male names.
iii. Age Adults

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The dedication to Artemis and the presence of personnel for sacrifices point to the fact that worship was practiced by the group.
Deities worshipped Artemis

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Preuner E. (1902), 'Inschriften aus Akarnanien', AM 27: 333, nr. 8; IG IX I2 2, 451
Summa D. (2010), 'Una nuova lista cultuale per Artemide', in C. Antonetti (eds.), Lo spazio ionico e le comunità della Grecia nord-occidentale. Territorio, società, istituzioni, Pisa: 389-390.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The lack of further information on the group does not allow firmer conclusions on its character as private association.