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Author: Alexandru Avram

CAPInv. 1257: [hi]ereis Heuresib[iou kai thi]asitai

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Black Sea Region
ii. Region North coast of the Black Sea
iii. Site Olbia

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [ἱ]ερεῖς Εὑρησιβ[ίου καὶ θι]ασῖται (I.Olbia 71, ll. 2-3 = IGDOP 11, ll. 2-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) [hi]ereis Heuresib[iou kai thi]asitai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) l. iv BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:From the name of the founder (Heuresibios).

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Olbia 71 (l. iv BC).
Note See also: IGDOP 11
Online Resources I.Olbia 71 = IGDOP 11 and AGRW ID 11596
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek dedication to [Ze]us Σωτ[ήρ], Sot[er] (l. 1), followed by the names of the members of a gentilic thiasos.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble base broken on left and right. The names (with patronyms partly broken) are distributed on two columns.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Heuresibios, also known from other records (see XII.i), whose floruit is situated before c. 350 BC.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership Possibly [Heu]resibios Leokrateos (col. A, l. 4) because his name occurs as first. He might have been the grandson of the founder.
iii. Members θι]ασῖται, [thi]asitai (l. 3)
iv. Officials [ἱ]ερεῖς, [hi]ereis (l. 2). Their identification amongst the members in the list is not clear.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number 14 names (with their patronyms) are more or less completely preserved.
ii. Gender Men
Note The names preserved are male names.
iii. Age Adults
v. Relations All the members belong to only two families. In the left column (A), there are seven brothers, very probable all grandsons of the founder.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship On the basis of the dedication to Zeus Soter; worship by the group may be supposed.
Deities worshipped Zeus Σωτήρ, Soter.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments Heuresibios, the founder of the thiasos, became a local hero, insofar we know a graffito bearing a dedication to Hermes and Heuresibios (IGDOP 12). The same Heuresibios is also mentioned by IGDOP 8 (statue representing him consacrated by his son to Zeus Ἐλευθέριος, Eleutherios) and IGDOP 10 (epigram praising Heuresibios, who brought the liberty and autonomy to the city).

In l. 2 Heuresib[iadai] (suggested by Ju.G. Vinogradov, SEG 37, 672) is not a likely restoration because it is too long (Stolba 2013).
iii. Bibliography Harland, P.A. (2014), Greco-Roman Associations: Text, Translations, and Commentaries, II. North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor. Berlin, Boston: 12-3.
Stolba, V.F. (2013), ‘A Prosopographical Note on IOlbia 71 (Dubois IGDOlbia 11)’, Mnemosyne 66: 293-302.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology suggests a private association.