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Last Updated on 06 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1377: synodos Sotatas

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
ii. Nome Arsinoites (00)
iii. Site Theadelphia

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) σύνοδος Σοτᾶτας (P.Lond. III 1170 verso, l. 122)
ii. Full name (transliterated) synodos Sotatas

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 259 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:Sotas
iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος synodos
Note synodos: P.Lond. III 1170 verso, l. 122

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Lond. III 1170 verso, ll. 122-3 (25 May AD 259)
Online Resources P.Lond. III 1170 verso
TM 11762
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Accounts of Heroninus in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) papyrus

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) On the basis of the name of the synodos, it is possible that the founder was Sotas, son of Lilla (?)
ii. Leadership On the basis of the name of the synodos, it is possible that the leader was Sotas, son of Lilla.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iii. Income Payment here may be for "caution-money" (ll. 122-123 ἀρραβῶνος, arrabonos) deposited by the buyer as an advance (or security). Cf. P.Grenf. II 67; P.Oxy. X 1275.

X. ACTIVITIES

ii. Meetings and events These entries of payments to the synodos are for an appearance at the festival of the Liloition as entertainers (?): ll.122-123 Λιλοϊτίου, Liloitiou.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction Sotas, son of Lilla, appears in other areas of these accounts recient payments in kind (usually wine): see ll. 54, 170, 210, 237.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Rathbone, D. (1991) Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third Century AD Egypt. The Heroninos archive and the Appianus Estate. Cambridge: 147.
Westermann, W.L. (1932) 'Entertainment in Villages of Graeco-Roman Egypt', JEA 18.1/2: 16-27.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Discussions of these groups have consistently identified them as an association.