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Author: Nikolaos Giannakopoulos

CAPInv. 940: hiera synodos oikoumenike peripolistike xystike

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Bithynia
iii. Site Prusias ad Hypium

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἱερὰ σύνοδος οἰκουμενικὴ περιπολιστικὴ ξυστική (I.Prusias 49, ll. 22-25)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hiera synodos oikoumenike peripolistike xystike

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:hiera
Geographical:oikoumenike
Professional:xystike
Other:peripolistike
iii. Descriptive terms σύνοδος, synodos
Note synodos: I.Prusias 49, l. 22

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Prusias 49
Note See also: IGR III 61
Online Resources I.Prusias 49
AGRW ID# 13334
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Honorific inscription in Greek for Kallikleanos Kallikles.
i.c. Physical format(s) Base of limestone.
ii. Source(s) provenance The inscription was found at Konuralp (Prusias ad Hypium).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects κρίμα, krima (l. 21)

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status The members were travelling athletes.

X. ACTIVITIES

ii. Meetings and events The mention of a κρίμα (krima) issued by the association (l. 21) in collaboration with the hiera synodos oikoumenike peripolistike thymelike (CAPInv. 939) alludes to communal deliberative meetings.
iv. Honours/Other activities The synodos honoured Kallikleanos Kallikles presumably for having organized the pentaeteric games of Augusta Antoninia, as this agonothesia is the first distinction mentioned in the inscription (ll. 2-5: ἀγωνοθέτην τῶν | μεγάλων πενταετηρικῶν | Αὐγουστείων Ἀντωνινίων | ἀγώνων, agonotheten ton megalon pentaeterikon Augousteion Antoninion agonon). The honorand came from a family of agonothetai and was also dekaprotos, koinoboulos dia biou (in the federal council of the Bithynian koinon) and agoranomos.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The association interacted with the hiera synodos oikoumenike peripolistike thymelike (CAPInv. 939) as they together issued a κρίμα (krima) to honour a local agonothetes (see Forbes 1955: 242; Pleket 1973: 200 note 10; Th. Corsten in I.Prusias 49, p. 120).

XII. NOTES

i. Comments On the title(s) and the organization of the world-wide association of athletes in the Imperial period see Poland 1909: 147-50; Forbes 1955; Pleket 1973; Caldelli 1992; Aneziri 2014: 435-6.
ii. Poland concordance Poland Δ* 78 (I.Prusias 49)
iii. Bibliography Aneziri, S. (2014), ‘Greek Strategies of Adaptation to the Roman World: The Case of the Contests’, Mnemosyne 67: 423-42.
Caldelli, M.-L. (1992). ‘Curia Athletarum, hiera xystike synodos e organizzazione delle terme a Roma’, ZPE 93: 75-87.
Forbes, C.A. (1955), ‘Ancient Athletic Guilds’, CPh 50: 238-52.
Pleket, H. (1973), ‘Some Aspects of the History of the Athletic Guilds’, ZPE 10: 197-227.
Poland, F. (1909), Geschichte des griechischen Vereinswesens. Leipzig.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology used and the nature of the international synodos of artists proves that we are dealing here with a private association.