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Last Updated on 15 May 2019

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 505: bennos Sereanon

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Phrygia
iii. Site Area of Nakoleia

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) βέννος Σερεανόν (MAMA V 176, ll. 4-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) bennos Sereanon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) i - iii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Geographical:The Seranoi refers to a village west of Nakoleia.
iii. Descriptive terms βέννος, bennos
Note bennos: MAMA V 176, l. 4

Ramsay (ed. pr.) and MAMA V saw βεννεῖ, bennei as the name of a god (but that should be [Zeus] Bennios); for βέννος, bennos as association, cf. CAPInv. 503.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) MAMA V 176 (i - iii AD)
Online Resources MAMA V 176
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedicatory/Honorific inscription, greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Stele
ii. Source(s) provenance Kuyucak

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iv. Endowments According to Drew-Bear and Naour 1990: 1999, n. 337, stephanos means "un don à l'association, en argent ou en nature". The commentary in MAMA V had argued that stephanos referred to the inscription itself.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The dedication of a stephanos is made by an individual to Zeus Bronton and the bennos Sereanon. This may suggest that the bennos worshipped Zeus Bronton.
Deities worshipped Zeus Bronton (?)
iv. Honours/Other activities The bennos is honoured with a stephanos by a private person.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments On bennos as a term for "association", cf. CAPInv. 503
iii. Bibliography Drew-Bear, Th., and Naour, Chr. (1990), ‘Divinités de Phrygie’, ANRW II.18.3: 1907-2044, esp. 1988, 1998-9.
Ramsay, W.M. (1884), ‘Sepulchral Customs in Ancient Phrygia’, JHS 5: 241-62, esp. 258-9, no. 10.
Schwabl, H. (1999), ‘Zum Kult des Zeus in Kleinasien (II). Der phrygische Zeus Bennios und Verwandtes’, AAntHung 39: 345-54.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The Sereanoi refers to a village, so it is possible that bennos refers here to the village as a cultic community. For similar problems, see the entries on φράτραι, phratrai.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain