Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia, Thrace [Bilingual ed.] 3110253453, 9783110253450

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Contents
Bibliographical Note
Sigla
Abbreviations
Calendars
Glossary
Maps
Introduction
ATTICA
[1]. IG II2 2343 (Athens, ca. 400 BCE)
[2]. IG II2 1255 (Piraeus, 337/6 BCE)
[3]. IG II2 337 (Piraeus, 333/2 BCE)
[4]. IG II2 1361 (Piraeus, 330-324/3 BCE)
[5]. IG II2 1256 (Piraeus, 329/8 BCE)
[6]. IG II2 1252+999 (Athens, late IV BCE)
[7]. IG II2 2499 (Athens, 306/5 BCE)
[8]. IG II2 1275 (Piraeus, 325-275 BCE)
[9]. IG II2 1261(Piraeus, 302/1 BCE, 301/0 BCE, 300/299 BCE)
[10]. IG II2 1262 (Piraeus, 300/299 BCE)
[11]. IG II2 1263 (Piraeus, 300/299 BCE)
[12]. IG II2 2347 (Salamis, ca. 300 BCE)
[13]. IG II2 1271 (Piraeus? 299/8 BCE)
[14]. Agora 16:161 (Athens, early III BCE)
[15]. IG II2 1277 (Athens, 278/7 BCE)
[16]. IG II2 1316 (Piraeus, 272/1 BCE)
[17]. IG II2 1278 (Athens?, 272/1 BCE)
[18]. IG II2 1273AB (Piraeus, 265/4 BCE)
[19]. IG II2 1291 (Piraeus? mid III BCE)
[20]. IG II2 1298 (Athens, 248/7 BCE)
[21]. SEG 2:9 (Salamis, 243/2 BCE)
[22]. IG II2 1284 (Piraeus, 241/0 BCE)
[23]. IG II2 1283 (Piraeus, 240/39 BCE)
[24]. IG II2 1297 (Athens, 236/5 BCE)
[25]. IG II2 1301 (Piraeus, 219/8 BCE)
[26]. IG II2 1292 (Athens? Piraeus? 215/4 BCE)
[27]. IRhamnous II 59 (Rhamnous, after 216/15 BCE)
[28]. IG II2 1314 (Piraeus, 213/2 BCE)
[29]. IG II2 1315 (Piraeus, 211/0 BCE)
[30]. IG II2 2354 (Athens, end of III BCE)
[31]. IG II2 1323 (Athens, 194/3 BCE)
[32]. IG II2 1324 (Piraeus, ca. 190 BCE)
[33]. IG II2 1325 (Piraeus, 185/4 BCE)
[34]. IG II2 1328 (Piraeus, 183/2 BCE, 175/4 BCE)
[35]. IG II2 1327 (Piraeus, 178/7 BCE)
[36]. IG II2 1326 (Piraeus, 176/5 BCE)
[37]. IG II2 1329 (Piraeus, 175/4 BCE)
[38]. SEG 36:228 (Attica, 159/8 BCE)
[39]. AM 66:228 no. 4 (Athens, 138/7 BCE)
[40]. IG II2 2358 (Athens, ca. 135 BCE)
[41]. SEG 42:157 (Athens, ca. 116/5 - ca. 95/4 BCE)
[42]. IG II2 1012 (Athens, 112/11 BCE)
[43]. IG II2 1335 (Piraeus, 101/0 BCE)
[44]. IG II2 1337 (Piraeus, 97/6 BCE)
[45]. IG II2 1334 (Piraeus, after 71/70 BCE)
[46]. IG II2 1339 (Athens, 57/6 BCE)
[47]. SEG 54:235 (Epano Liosia, mid I BCE)
[48]. IG II2 1343 (Athens, 37/6 or 36/5 BCE)
[49]. IG II2 1369 (Liopesi, II CE)
[50]. SEG 31:122 (Liopesi, early II CE)
[51]. IG II2 1368 (Athens, 164/65 CE)
[52]. IG II2 2361 (Piraeus, 200-211 CE)
[53]. IG II2 1365+1366 (Laurion, late II or early III CE)
[54]. IG II2 2960 (Acharnai, mid II CE)
[55]. IG II2 10248 (Athens, III CE)
CENTRAL GREECE
[56]. IG VII 2463 (Thebes, Boeotia, late IV BCE)
[57]. IG VII 685-688 (Tanagra, Boeotia, III-II BCE)
[58]. SEG 32:488 (Tanagra, Boeotia, end of II BCE/beginning of I BCE)
[59]. SEG 26:614 (Aulis, Boeotia, early II BCE)
[60]. Jaccottet no. 7 (Megara, 141 CE)
[61]. IG IX/12 670 (Physkos [Locris], mid II CE)
MACEDONIA
[62]. SEG 1:282 (Acanthus, 27 BCE-14 CE)
[63]. IBeroia 22 (Beroea, 7 BCE)
[64]. IBeroia 372 (Beroea, II CE)
[65]. SEG 46:744 (Edessa, 51 CE)
[66]. CIG II 2007f (Hagios Mamas, II CE)
[67]. Philippi II 410/G258 (Kalambaki, uncertain date)
[68]. CIL III 633 (Philippi, II CE)
[69]. Philippi II 133/G441 (Philippi, II-III CE)
[70]. Philippi II 142/G562 (Philippi, II-III CE)
[71]. Philippi II 340/L589 (Philippi, I-II CE?)
[72]. SEG 46:800 (Pydna, 250 CE)
[73]. IJO I Mac 1 (Stobi, II-III CE)
[74]. IG X/2.1 70 (Thessalonikē, 66-67 CE)
[75]. SEG 42:625 (Thessalonikē, 90-91 CE)
[76]. IG X/2.1 259 (Thessalonikē, I CE)
[77]. IG X/2.1 255 (Thessalonikē, I-II CE)
[78]. Nigdelis II.12 (Thessalonikē, early to mid-II CE)
[79]. IG X/2.1 291 (Thessalonikē, late II CE)
[80]. IG X/2.1 506 (Thessalonikē, 209-210 CE)
[81]. IG X/2.1 260 (Thessalonikē, III CE)
[82]. IJO I Mac 15 (Thessalonikē, late III CE)
THRACE
[83]. IAegThrace E18 (Abdera, III CE?)
[84]. SEG 39:649 (Augusta Traiana, II-III CE)
[85]. IGBulg III/2 1626 (Augusta Traiana, III CE)
[86]. IPerinthos 49 (Perinthos, I CE and II CE)
[87]. IPerinthos 56 (Perinthos, 196-198 CE)
[88]. IPerinthos 57 (Perinthos, II CE?)
[89]. IGBulg V 5434 (Philippopolis, II-III CE)
[90]. IByzantion 31 (Rhegion, 85-96 CE)
[91]. IByzantion 37 (Rhegion, 117-137 CE)
Bibliography
Indexes
I. Athenian Archons
II. Roman Emperors and Governors
III. Deities, the Deified, and Heroes
IV. Ethnic Designations
V. Types of Associations
VI. Association Names
VII. Officers
VIII. General Index
IX. Other Inscriptions and Papyri
X. Literary References
Concordance of Inscriptions

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John S. Kloppenborg · Richard S. Ascough Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentary

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche

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John S. Kloppenborg · Richard S. Ascough

Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentary I. Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia, Thrace

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ISBN 978-3-11-025345-0 e-ISBN 978-3-11-025346-7 ISSN 0171-6441 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kloppenborg, John S., 1951Greco-Roman associations : texts, translations, and commentary : Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia, Thrace / John S. Kloppenborg, Richard S. Ascough. p. cm. - (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche, ISSN 0171-6441 ; Bd. 181) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-11-025345-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Associations, institutions, etc. - Greece - Sources. 2. Associations, institutions, etc. - Rome - Sources. 3. Social structure - Greece Sources. 4. Social structure - Rome - Sources. 5. Greece - Social conditions - To 146 B.C. - Sources. 6. Rome - Social conditions 510-30 B.C. - Sources. 7. Civilization, Greco-Roman - Sources. 8. Inscriptions, Greek. 9. Inscriptions, Latin. I. Ascough, Richard S. II. Title. DE71.K57 2010 938-dc22 2011015880

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Foreword This volume and the two projected to follow it have their origins in a Greek reading seminar at the University of Toronto begun in the 1990s and after a short hiatus, recommenced in 2003. Many of the texts selected for translation were epigraphical and related to associations, guilds and clubs from Attica, Asia and Egypt. The focus on associations – cultic, professional, immigrant, domestic, and neighborhood – was a function of the conviction that in order to understand the associative practices of the early Christ groups in Asia, Macedonia, and Attica, it was critical to understand the structures, activities, leadership, finances, and recruitment strategies of the many associations that had existed at least since the fourth century BCE and which continued to play an important part in social life well into the high Empire. Several monographs and larger studies have their origins in this seminar. Most notably, Bradley H. McLean’s An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods from Alexander the Great down to the Reign of Constantine (323 BC – AD 337) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2003) is the published and greatly-expanded form of the notes he developed as the seminar oriented itself to epigraphical conventions. This work of course built on A. Geoffrey Woodhead’s The Study of Greek Inscriptions (2nd ed.; Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981) and Sterling Dow’s Conventions in Editing (Greek, Roman and Byzantine Scholarly Aids, 2; Duke University, 1969). Two of the members of the group wrote doctoral dissertations which applied knowledge of Greek and Roman associations to the interpretation of early Christian texts. Richard S. Ascough studied Macedonian associations in his 1997 dissertation, now published as Paul’s Macedonian Associations: The Social Context of Philippians and 1 Thessalonians (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2/161; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003). Philip Harland’s 1999 dissertation focused on associations in Asia to help him reshape thinking about the social context presupposed by the Apocalypse of John and the letters of Ignatius. The revised dissertation was published as Associations, Synagogues and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003). This volume and the two to follow are organized regionally and describe a spiral beginning in Attica, moving northward to Macedonia and Thrace (vol. 1), then through Asia, the Aegean Islands, the Bosphoros region and Syria-

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Palestine (vol. 2), and finally to Egypt, North Africa, Italy, Germany, Pannonia, Dacia, and Moesia (vol. 3). They are designed principally to provide a “thick” context for the study of the associative practices of the Christ groups in the cities of the Empire. Earlier studies of the development of the structure of Christian groups, even when they paid attention to Greek and Roman associations, tended to rely on a very small handful of inscriptions in order to contextualize early Christian practices. This selection routinely included Syll3 985 (Philadelphia, Lydia), IG II2 1368 (Athens) [51], CIL XIV 2112 (Lanuvium) and one or two other documents. There is no doubt that these few inscriptions are illuminating when it comes to considering the associative practices of Christ-groups. The obvious danger of so narrow a data base is obvious, however: one might well conclude that these few inscriptions typify and define the nomenclature, membership profiles, and activities of all associations and infer, as some researchers did, that the differences between these three or four associations and the Christgroups meant that Christ groups were sui generis and that little or nothing was to be learned from a study of Greco-Roman associations. Nothing could be further from the truth. As the selection of inscriptions included here will show, associations display a wide variety of naming practices, forms of internal governance, membership profiles, activities, and relationships with their host cities. When the range of associations and their practices are seen, it becomes clear that Christ-groups could fit rather comfortably within the spectrum of ancient associations, as indeed patristic writers such as Tertullian recognized (Apol. 39). Although a complete collection of association inscriptions is an important desideratum, it must be stated clearly from the outset that this volume is not intended as a corpus inscriptionum orgeonum, thiasorum et collegiorum. Such a corpus would be unmanageably large, since for Attica alone IG II2 includes over one hundred decreta collegiorum et sodaliciorum (no. 1249–1368), seventeen catalogi thiasotarum, eranistarum, orgeonum (nos. 2343–2361) and numerous dedications from various associations. Since the publication of Inscriptiones graecae in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many more Attic inscriptions have come to light and have been published in the reports of the Athenian Agora excavations and elsewhere. More than one hundred association inscriptions are extant from Macedonia and at least fifty from Thrace, spread among a number of different publications, some quite obscure. The publication of Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 1972–) has added hundreds of Asian inscriptions mentioning associations, and dozens if not hundreds of Greek and Demotic papyri and inscriptions from Egypt relate to associations. The corpus of Latin inscriptions is already huge, as is clear from a simple perusal of Jean Pierre Waltzing’s Étude historique sur les corporations professionnelles chez les Romains depuis

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les origines jusqu’à la chute de l’Empire d’Occident (4 vols.; Louvain: Peeters, 1895–1900). Thus, a complete corpus of associations would include several thousand inscriptions and papyri, and when furnished with notes, commentary, and indices would represent a multi-volume publication taking a decade or more to compile. Without aspiring to a comprehensive publication of inscriptions, the present volume aims at a representative selection which illustrates the variety of types of associations, their activities, leadership structures, membership profiles, recruitment strategies, and finances. A relatively small number of association nomoi or by-laws are extant and we have included all that are in a reasonably complete state of preservation. For other types of documents, however, we have had to make a selection. Decrees voting honors to members or patrons are particularly plentiful in the epigraphical record, as are dedications of association members to the gods and funerary inscriptions honoring deceased members and patrons. These tend to be highly formulaic and repetitive. To print all of them would scarcely enhance our knowledge of the general practices of associations. We have, therefore, offered a selection that illustrates the variety of practices, names and internal structures of associations, the distinctive formulae which appear in their inscriptions, and various singular features not attested in the other inscriptions. Other honorific inscriptions and dedications are listed in the notes and indices. Hundreds of membership lists are available, but little would be gained by publishing all of these. We have selected a few membership lists, principally to illustrate a range of membership profiles. We have included a few very large associations – the Bacchic association lead by Agrippinilla (IGUR 160) located in Terre Nova, Campania (Italy), for example – and several much smaller groups, ranging from a few members to fifty or sixty. Some area gender-exclusive clubs, others included citizens and metics, others again included free and servile members. Élite patrons are present in some groups, but not in others. The reader will quickly note the uneven nature of the dossier on associations. While associations are found in Attica in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, and in Egypt from the third century BCE onward, most of the evidence from Macedonia and Thrace (and Italy) comes from the imperial period or later. Central Greece and Beroea was certainly not as rich a source of association inscriptions as Athens, the Piraeus and Thessalonikē. In order to contextualize Paul’s letters to Corinth it would be a great boon to have a rich dossier of inscriptions from Corinth, but alas, very little is available, at least as far as association inscriptions are concerned. Such are the vagaries of archaeology and epigraphy. The honorific decrees, membership lists, koinon tomb inscriptions, and dedications included here each illustrate either something typical of associations in general, or some feature that is noteworthy or unusual in the

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association in question. Inevitably, we will have omitted inscriptions that are of importance to the study of particular locales, deities, professions, or ethnic groups. This is the risk involved in any selection from a very large set of data. The editors wish to acknowledge the collaboration of Bradley H. McLean in the early days of the seminar, and the work of a number of graduate students and former graduate students: William Arnal, Rene Baergen, Alicia Batten, Callie Callon, Agnes Choi, Jenn Cianca, David Kaden, Richard Last, Rachel McRae, David Reed, Kevin Rodrigues, Ryan Schellenberg, Sarah Rollens, Erin Vearncombe, and Caroline Whelan. Special thanks are due to Michelle Christian and Brigidda Zapata who collected bibliography and checked the names mentioned in the Athenian associations. We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Ilias Arnaoutoglou who graciously read through the entire collection of inscriptions and offered many corrections, suggestions, and additional bibliography. The arrangement of the inscriptions in the Attic section is chronological. This organization reflects the fact that several inscriptions relate to the cults of Bendis and of the Mother of Gods–associations which survived in the Piraeus or Athens for at least several decades and left a series of monuments. The arrangement allows for the development of these groups over time to be tracked. The arrangement of the sections from Central Greece, Macedonia, and Thrace is by geographical region, arranged alphabetically. The editing, notes and commentary on the inscriptions from Attica, Boeotia and Central Greece are the work of John S. Kloppenborg. Richard S. Ascough is responsible for compiling and editing the inscriptions from Macedonia and Thrace. This project has been supported by generous funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and by grants from the Premier’s Research Excellence Award (Government of Ontario) and Queen’s University. John S. Kloppenborg Richard S. Ascough

Contents Bibliographical Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Sigla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Calendars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxv Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ATTICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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[1]. IG II2 2343 (Athens, ca. 400 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cult Table with members of a Koinon Thiasōtai [2]. IG II2 1255 (Piraeus, 337/6 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of the orgeōnes of Bendis honoring Athenian citizens [3]. IG II2 337 (Piraeus, 333/2 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Kitian Temple for the Syrian Aphrodite [4]. IG II2 1361 (Piraeus, 330–324/3 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of the orgeōnes of Bendis [5]. IG II2 1256 (Piraeus, 329/8 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of the orgeōnes of Bendis honoring epimelētai [6]. IG II2 1252+999 (Athens, late IV BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Honorific Decree by the orgeōnes of Amynos and Asklepios [7]. IG II2 2499 (Athens, 306/5 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lease of the temple of Egretēs [8]. IG II2 1275 (Piraeus, 325–275 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Obligations of members of a thiasos

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[9]. IG II2 1261(Piraeus, 302/1 BCE, 301/0 BCE, 300/299 BCE) . . . . . . . . . Three honorific decrees of thiasōtai [10]. IG II2 1262 (Piraeus, 300/299 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Honorific decree of the thiasōtai of Tynaros [11]. IG II2 1263 (Piraeus, 300/299 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of thiasōtai honoring their secretary [12]. IG II2 2347 (Salamis, ca. 300 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A List of thiasōtai honored with crowns [13]. IG II2 1271 (Piraeus? 299/8 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decision of thiasōtai to honor their treasurer [14]. Agora 16:161 (Athens, early III BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of the combined orgeōnes of Echelos and the Heroines [15]. IG II2 1277 (Athens, 278/7 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of a thiasos honoring its epimelētai and secretary [16]. IG II2 1316 (Piraeus, 272/1 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The thiasōtai/orgeōnes of the Mother of the Gods [17]. IG II2 1278 (Athens?, 272/1 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of thiasōtai? [18]. IG II2 1273AB (Piraeus, 265/4 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of the thiasōtai of the Mother of the Gods [19]. IG II2 1291 (Piraeus? mid III BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Honorific decree of eranistai [20]. IG II2 1298 (Athens, 248/7 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The thiasōtai of Artemis honor their secretary and treasurer [21]. SEG 2:9 (Salamis, 243/2 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Honorific decree of the thiasōtai of Bendis [22]. IG II2 1284 (Piraeus, 241/0 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of the orgeōnes of Bendis honoring two members [23]. IG II2 1283 (Piraeus, 240/39 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of the Thracian orgeōnes of Bendis [24]. IG II2 1297 (Athens, 236/5 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree and membership list of the thiasōtai of Artemis Kallistē [25]. IG II2 1301 (Piraeus, 219/8 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of thiasōtai or orgeōnes

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[26]. IG II2 1292 (Athens? Piraeus? 215/4 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of the Sarapiastai honoring their treasurer [27]. IRhamnous II 59 (Rhamnous, after 216/15 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarapiastai honor a benefactor [28]. IG II2 1314 (Piraeus, 213/2 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The orgeōnes of the Mother of the Gods honor a priestess [29]. IG II2 1315 (Piraeus, 211/0 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of the orgeōnes of the Mother of the Gods [30]. IG II2 2354 (Athens, end of III BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Membership list of an association of eranistai [31]. IG II2 1323 (Athens, 194/3 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of thiasōtai honoring their treasurer and secretary [32]. IG II2 1324 (Piraeus, ca. 190 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Orgeōnes of Bendis and Deloptes honor an epimelētēs [33]. IG II2 1325 (Piraeus, 185/4 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Membership List and honorific decree of orgeōnes of Dionysos [34]. IG II2 1328 (Piraeus, 183/2 BCE, 175/4 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regulations of the orgeōnes of the Mother of the Gods [35]. IG II2 1327 (Piraeus, 178/7 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of the orgeōnes of the Mother of the Gods [36]. IG II2 1326 (Piraeus, 176/5 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regulations of the Dionysiastai [37]. IG II2 1329 (Piraeus, 175/4 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Orgeōnes of the Mother of the Gods honor their secretary [38]. SEG 36:228 (Attica, 159/8 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Members for a synodos of Herakles [39]. AM 66:228 no. 4 (Athens, 138/7 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Honorary Decree of the orgeōnes of Aphrodite [40]. IG II2 2358 (Athens, ca. 135 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Membership List of a cultic association [41]. SEG 42:157 (Athens, ca. 116/5 – ca. 95/4 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dedication to the Egyptian gods [42]. IG II2 1012 (Athens, 112/11 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Society of ship owners and merchants

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[43]. IG II2 1335 (Piraeus, 101/0 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . List of contributing Sabaziastai [44]. IG II2 1337 (Piraeus, 97/6 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Honors for the priestess of the Syrian Aphrodite [45]. IG II2 1334 (Piraeus, after 71/70 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Decree of the orgeōnes honoring a priestess [46]. IG II2 1339 (Athens, 57/6 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regulations of the Heroistai [47]. SEG 54:235 (Epano Liosia, mid I BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . List of eranistai [48]. IG II2 1343 (Athens, 37/6 or 36/5 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Honorary decree of the Soteriastai for their founder [49]. IG II2 1369 (Liopesi, II CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Nomos of eranistai regulating admission and discipline [50]. SEG 31:122 (Liopesi, early II CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Nomos of eranistai regulating sacrifice and discipline [51]. IG II2 1368 (Athens, 164/65 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Rule of the Iobakchoi [52]. IG II2 2361 (Piraeus, 200–211 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Membership List of the orgeōnes of Belela [53]. IG II2 1365+1366 (Laurion, late II or early III CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Cult of Mēn Tyrannos [54]. IG II2 2960 (Acharnai, mid II CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dedication of the Asklepiastai [55]. IG II2 10248 (Athens, III CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Koinon tomb

207 211 214 217 220 224 229 235 241 257 262 278 279

CENTRAL GREECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 [56]. IG VII 2463 (Thebes, Boeotia, late IV BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 An Association of synthytai of Athena [57]. IG VII 685–688 (Tanagra, Boeotia, III–II BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 Boeotian koinon tombs [58]. SEG 32:488 (Tanagra, Boeotia, end of II BCE/beginning of I BCE) . . . 287 A Koinon tomb

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[59]. SEG 26:614 (Aulis, Boeotia, early II BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 A Koinon tomb [60]. Jaccottet no. 7 (Megara, 141 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 Exemptions from civic service for a priest of Dionysos [61]. IG IX/12 670 (Physkos [Locris], mid II CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Regulations for a Dionysiac group MACEDONIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 [62]. SEG 1:282 (Acanthus, 27 BCE–14 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An Association of Roman merchants [63]. IBeroia 22 (Beroea, 7 BCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Honors set up by a thiasos [64]. IBeroia 372 (Beroea, II CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An Guild of donkey drivers [65]. SEG 46:744 (Edessa, 51 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An Association of Zeus Hypsistos [66]. CIG II 2007f (Hagios Mamas, II CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Collegium of the Hero God [67]. Philippi II 410/G258 (Kalambaki, uncertain date) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tombstone for the treasurer of the silversmiths [68]. CIL III 633 (Philippi, II CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An Association of Silvanus [69]. Philippi II 133/G441 (Philippi, II–III CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bequest involving two associations [70]. Philippi II 142/G562 (Philippi, II–III CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An Association of gladiators [71]. Philippi II 340/L589 (Philippi, I–II CE?) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An Association of Maenads [72]. SEG 46:800 (Pydna, 250 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An Association of Zeus Hypsistos [73]. IJO I Mac 1 (Stobi, II–III CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donation of a synagogue [74]. IG X/2.1 70 (Thessalonikē, 66–67 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An Association of banqueters

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[75]. SEG 42:625 (Thessalonikē, 90–91 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Funerary Monument for a ship captain [76]. IG X/2.1 259 (Thessalonikē, I CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An Association of the mystai of Zeus Dionysos Gongylos [77]. IG X/2.1 255 (Thessalonikē, I–II CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Founding of a household association of Sarapis [78]. Nigdelis II.12 (Thessalonikē, early to mid-II CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An Association of sport lovers [79]. IG X/2.1 291 (Thessalonikē, late II CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An Association of purple-dyers [80]. IG X/2.1 506 (Thessalonikē, 209–210 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Funerary bomos of a priest of Dionysos [81]. IG X/2.1 260 (Thessalonikē, III CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bequest of a priestess of Dionysos [82]. IJO I Mac 15 (Thessalonikē, late III CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judaean sarcophagus inscription

348 352 357 362 364 367 370 375

THRACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 [83]. IAegThrace E18 (Abdera, III CE?) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Association grotto dedicated to Dionysos [84]. SEG 39:649 (Augusta Traiana, II–III CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dedication of an altar to the pro polis speira [85]. IGBulg III/2 1626 (Augusta Traiana, III CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Membership List of the symposiastai of Asklepios [86]. IPerinthos 49 (Perinthos, I CE and II CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Synagogue of barbers [87]. IPerinthos 56 (Perinthos, 196–198 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Bakcheion of Asianoi honors the Emperor [88]. IPerinthos 57 (Perinthos, II CE?) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sibylline Oracle concerning a Dionysiac speira [89]. IGBulg V 5434 (Philippopolis, II–III CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dedication to a cult association of Homonoia [90]. IByzantion 31 (Rhegion, 85–96 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dedication by an association of mystai

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[91]. IByzantion 37 (Rhegion, 117–137 CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Dedication by an association of mystai Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. Athenian Archons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II. Roman Emperors and Governors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . III. Deities, the Deified, and Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IV. Ethnic Designations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V. Types of Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VI. Association Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII. Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VIII. General Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IX. Other Inscriptions and Papyri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X. Literary References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Concordance of Inscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Bibliographical Note Bibliographical references occur in two form: secondary literature pertaining to a single inscription is cited in the notes and comments using an author-date format. The full bibliographical data is then given in the list of “Literature” at the end of each section. Secondary literature cited repeatedly in connection with multiple inscriptions (e.g., Foucart 1873; Mikalson 1998) is also cited in the author-date format in the notes and commentary. The full bibliographical data are provided in the Bibliography at the end of the volume. We have used standard abbreviations for corpora, lexica and periodical literature.

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