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Geographical area |
Western Asia Minor
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Region |
Lydia
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Site |
Thyateira
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Full name (original language) |
οἱ ἀπὸ βασιλέων Ἀττάλου καὶ Εὐμένους κατοικοῦντες Μερνουφυτα Ἡρακληασταί (TAM V.2 959, ll. 2-7)
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Full name (transliterated) |
hoi apo basileon Attalou kai Eumenous katoikountes Mernouphyta Herakleastai
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Name elements |
| Cultic: | Heroic name based on Herakles | | Geographical: | the name gives also geographical indication | | Personal: | basileon Attalou kai Eumenous |
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Source(s) |
TAM V.2 959 (ii AD) For alternative dating see Cohen 1995 p. 218.
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Note |
See also:
Keil and Premerstein 1911: 27-8, no. 51
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Online Resources |
TAM V.2 959
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Source type(s) |
Epigraphic source(s)
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Document(s) typology & language/script |
Honorific inscription dedicated by the association to a man. Greek.
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Physical format(s) |
Marble round base
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Source(s) provenance |
Cemetery Kys-Dede-Mesarlyk at Ak Hissar in the territory of Thyateira.
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Treasury/Funds |
The association must have funds to honour a man with an engraved basis and with a golden crown (l. 11).
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Deities worshipped |
Herakles
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Honours/Other activities |
The association honours Glykon son of Nikandros with a golden crown for being a man φιλότιμος (l. 12) (philotimos, "eager of honour").
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Local interaction |
The association seems to represent the whole community of Mernouphyta, apparently a foundation of the Attalids, one of whose ancestors was Herakles. The name of the association (...ἀπὸ βασιλέων Ἀττάλου καὶ Εὐμένους..., ...apo basileon Attalou kai Eumenous...) demonstrates that this relation between the association and the attalid community is still remembered in the second century AD.
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Comments |
It is not sure if this association has any relation to the one attested in the same city in the third century AD (TAM V.2 1007 et al.)
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Bibliography |
de Hoz, M.-P. (1999), Die Lydischen Kulte im Lichte der griechischen Inschriften. Bonn: no. 22.10.
Keil, J., and von Premerstein, A. (1911), Bericht über eine zweite Reise in Lydien ausgeführt 1908, (Denkschriften Akad. Wien Band 54.2). Vienna: 27-8, no. 51.
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Private association |
Possible
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Note |
The name of the association indicates a narrow contact with the local public sphere, even if it is private as most cult associations are.
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