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Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1360: hoi laxoi

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
ii. Nome Thinites (U08)
iii. Site Ptolemais Hermeiou (Gebel Tukh)

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ λαξοῖ (IGR I 1151, l. 4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi laxoi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 80 / 81 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:laxoi

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IGR I 1151 (AD 80/1)
Note other editions: SB V 8805
Online Resources IGR I 1151
TM 102695
AGRW ID 15307
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication/Topos Inscription; Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Stone

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects τόπος topos (l. 4); perhaps associated with or located near a temple?

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership [ἱερο]ποιὸς [καὶ] ἀρχιπρύτανις hieropoios kai archiprytanis (l. 2)

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number 5
ii. Gender Men
Note Recorded names are male names.
v. Relations One father-son pair: Soter and Sarapian son of Soter (?)

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Bernand, E. (1993) 'Tόπος dans les inscriptions grecques d’Egypte', ZPE 98: 103-10 (esp. 107-8).

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note The text does not contain a reference to a synodos, koinon, or thiasos. But the identification of the group as the laxoi does suggest that it might have referred to an association as parallels indicate. The reference to a topos, more common outside of Egypt, can also indicate the presence of an association.