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Last Updated on 20 May 2019

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 1672: hoi to[u Seta]neiou theou Dionyso[u mystai]

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Ionia
iii. Site Teos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ το[ῦ Σητα]νείου θεοῦ Διονύσο[υ μύσται] (SEG 17: 515, ll. 3-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi to[u Seta]neiou theou Dionyso[u mystai]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 130 - 136 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:mystai
Theophoric:Dionysos Setaneios

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 17: 515 (130 - 136 AD)
Note See also:
IGR IV 1567
Boulay 2013: 254

The restorations are based on Hamilton 1842: 451, no. 239, who apparently saw the stone before it was damaged.
Online Resources SEG 17: 515
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedicatory inscription, Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Statue base
ii. Source(s) provenance "Dug out of the ruins of the temple [sc. of Dionysus]" (Hamilton 1842: 451)

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The mystai have erected a statue and an altar for Tiberius Claudius Pius Pisoninus.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials The inscription has been set up by one Titus Aurelius Georgius Attalianus; he may have been an official of the association, but has covered the expenses with his own money.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The epithet Setaneios, possibly related to grain, is not attested elsewhere. Dionysos was the main god worshipped at Teos; the mystai may have participated in the civic cult.
Deities worshipped Dionysos Setaneios
iv. Honours/Other activities The mystai honor an asiarches for his benefactions towards the association, and refer to earlier benefactions made by other members of his family (ἐκ προγόνων, ek progonon, l. 5).

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland B 336
iii. Bibliography Boulay, Th. (2013), ‘Les « groupes de référence » au sein du corps civique de Téos’, in P. Fröhlich, and P. Hamon (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIe siècle apr. J.-C.), Genève: 251-75.
Hamilton, W.J. (1842), Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia. London.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The status of mystai in the imperial era is often problematic. In this case, not enough information is known to decide whether or not the mystai were a group related to the civic cult (which still would not exclude the possibility of private worship).
ii. Historical authenticity Certain