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Author: Maria-Gabriella Parissaki

CAPInv. 1764: hoi perei (i.e. peri) Rouphon Zeipa myste (i.e. mystai) Botryos Dionysou

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Macedonia
ii. Region Edonis
iii. Site Philippi

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ περεὶ (i.e. περὶ) Ῥοῦφον Ζειπᾶ μύστε (μύσται) Βότρυος Διονύσου (Philippi II 535/G207)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi perei (i.e. peri) Rouphon Zeipa myste (i.e. mystai) Botryos Dionysou

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii - iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:μύσται, mystai
Personal:hoi peri Rufou Zeipa: followers of Rufus, son of Zeipa
Theophoric:Botryos Dionysou

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Philippi II 535/G207 (ii - iii AD)
Online Resources TM 126885
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek honorary inscription set up for Rufus, son of Zeipa, by his followers.
i.c. Physical format(s) Pedimental stele; in the tympanon a bust of a bearded man is depicted in relief.
ii. Source(s) provenance The stone was seen in 1899 at Alistrati, territory of Philippi.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership μυστάρχης, mystarches (ll. 3-4: μυ[στάρχῃ], my[starchei], according to the editio princeps; but Perdrizet (1900: 317) proposes the restitution μύ[στῃ], my[stei], due to lack of adequate space.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status The leader of the group is a peregrinus of Thracian origin.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The followers of Rufus honor their leader as euergetes.

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland B 64
iii. Bibliography Perdrizet, P. (1900), ‘Inscriptions de Philippes. Les Rosalies’, BCH 24: 299-323.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note Though private in character and using a distinctive name, the text offers no signs of this group's duration or inner organisation. This could have been a group of initiates united ad hoc.