Associations in the Greco-Roman World (AGRW)

An expanding collection of inscriptions, papyri, and other sources in translation (run by Philip A. Harland)

Building: Sanctuary of Amynos – Amyneion (IV BCE) ║ Athens - Attica

[7] Regulations of the Iobacchoi (164/165 CE) ║ Athens - Attica

Building [B2]: Hall of the Iobacchoi Devoted to Dionysos (II CE) ║ Athens - Attica

Grave of a Seven-year-old Boy from Athens (II CE or later) ║ Athens - Attica

Honors by a Baccheion for Flavia Lais and Flavia Apollonia (after 117 CE) ║ Megara - Attica

[23] Exemptions by a Dionysiac Society for a Priest of Dionysos (141 CE) ║ Megara - Attica

Poem for Dionysos Dedicated by Dionysios (ca. 200 BCE) ║ Piraeus - Attica

Building [B1]: Temple of Dionysiasts (ca. 185 BCE) ║ Piraeus - Attica

Membership List and Honors by Sacrificing Associates for their Treasurer (185/184 BCE) ║ Piraeus - Attica

[21] Decree of Dionysiasts Recognizing a Hero (176/175 BCE) ║ Piraeus - Attica

[25] Grave Mentioning a Female Cowherd (imperial era) ║ Kenchreai - Peloponnesos

[31b] Grave of Galatas Prepared by Dionysiasts (250-200 BCE) ║ Tanagra - Boeotia

[30] Regulations of a Dionysiac Society (ca. 150 BCE) ║ Physkeis - Lokris

Honors by Devotees of the Muses for King Perseus (179-168 BCE) ║ Dion - Macedonia

[43] Dedication by a Female Association Devoted to the God Liber (I-II CE) ║ Philippi - Macedonia

[50] Bequest to an Association of Initiates of Zeus Dionysos Gongylos (I CE) ║ Thessalonike - Macedonia

Membership List (frag.) of a Dionysiac Company (ca. 200-250 CE) ║ Thessalonike - Macedonia

[57] Funerary Altar of a Priest of Dionysos (209 CE) ║ Thessalonike - Macedonia

[58] Bequest of a Priestess of Dionysos (III CE) ║ Thessalonike - Macedonia

[60] Dedication to the God Dionysos and the Initiates (III CE) ║ Abdera - Thrace

Membership and Functionary List (frag.) for a Dionysiac Association (undated) ║ Apollonia - Thrace

[61] Dedication of an Altar to a Company (II-III CE) ║ Augusta Traiana - Thrace

Fragment Involving a Dionysiac Group (undated) ║ Augusta Traiana - Thrace

Grave Epigram (frag.) of Chreste Mentioning Mysteries (early III CE) ║ Bizye - Thrace

Dedication to Zeus Dionysos by a Priest (undated) ║ Bizye - Thrace

Dedication to Zeus Dionysos by Lykomedes for His Own Initiates (undated) ║ Bizye - Thrace

Honors by the Initiates of Dionysos Kallon for Soterichos and Semnos (50-100 CE) ║ Byzantion - Thrace

Honors by Initiates of Dionysos Kallon for Crispina (50-100 CE) ║ Byzantion - Thrace

Honors by Initiates of Dionysos Kallon for Italicus and Lollia Catulla (50-100 CE) ║ Byzantion - Thrace

Honors by Initiates of Dionysos Kallon for Rufus (85-96 CE) ║ Byzantion - Thrace

Honors by the Initiates of Dionysos Kallon for Diodoros and Stallia Prima (112-116 CE) ║ Byzantion - Thrace

Dedication to Dionysos Parabolos by a Society (117-137 CE) ║ Byzantion - Thrace

Decree (?) (frag.) of the Dionysoboleitans (118-138 CE) ║ Byzantion - Thrace

[78] Dedication of a Column by a Priest of a Baccheion of Asians (early III CE) ║ Nikopolis on the Istros - Thrace

Dedication and Membership List (frag.) of Initiates of Dionysos (undated) ║ Nikopolis on the Istros - Thrace

[64] Honors for the Emperor by a Baccheion of Asians (196-198 CE) ║ Perinthos-Herakleia - Thrace

[65] Sibylline Oracle Concerning a Dionysiac Company (II CE) ║ Perinthos-Herakleia - Thrace

[68] Honors by Initiates of Dionysos Kallon for Semnos (85-96 CE) ║ Rhegion - Thrace

Dedication on Behalf of Emperor Elagabal by a Company of Dionysiasts (218-222 CE) ║ Histria - Scythia and Moesia

Dedication for Dionysos and the Society by the Priestess of Athena (50-100 CE) ║ Kallatis - Scythia and Moesia

Orphic Bone Tablets (V BCE) ║ Olbia - Scythia and Moesia

[80] Dedication of a Statue by a Dionysiac Society (100-50 BCE) ║ Tomis - Scythia and Moesia

Grave of a Dionysiac Initiate and Performer (155 CE) ║ Amastris - Pontus

Grave of Saturninus the Bacchic Dancer (134 CE) ║ Claudiopolis - Bithynia

Grave of Dion who Danced for Dionysos (imperial era) ║ Nikomedia - Bithynia

Letters of Hadrian to the Synod of Dionysiac Performers (133/134 CE) ║ Alexandreia Troas - Mysia and the Troad

Grave of a Leader of a Bacchic Association (III CE) ║ Daskyleion - Mysia and the Troad

Grave of a Dionysiac Initiate with an Epigram (undated) ║ Daskyleion - Mysia and the Troad

Imperial Decree and Letter Involving a Dionysiac Society (28/27 BCE) ║ Kyme - Mysia and the Troad

Honors for a Procurator by Initiates of Dionysos Kathegemon (I-II CE) ║ Kyme - Mysia and the Troad

[261] Dedication to Antoninus Pius, Dionysos, and Initiates (138-161 CE) ║ Kyzikos area [Prokonnesos] - Mysia and the Troad

Grave of Andronikos the Initiate of Bromios (undated) ║ Kyzikos area [Makestos] - Mysia and the Troad

Dedication by a Banker and Member of a Bacchic Group (late imperial era) ║ Kyzikos - Mysia and the Troad

[113] Dedication to King Eumenes II by a Bacchic Group (after 158 BCE) ║ Pergamon - Mysia and the Troad

Dedication of an Altar to Dionysos Kathegemon by Herodes (ca. 27 BCE) ║ Pergamon - Mysia and the Troad

Honors by Dionysiac Cowherds for a Leader (I CE) ║ Pergamon - Mysia and the Troad

Honors (frag.) by Dionysiac Cowherds (?) (I CE) ║ Pergamon - Mysia and the Troad

Honors by a Chief Cowherd for the Priestess Sosipatra (I CE) ║ Pergamon - Mysia and the Troad

Dedication (frag.) to Dionysos Kathegemon (I-II CE) ║ Pergamon - Mysia and the Troad

Building [B6]: Hall of Benches of the Dionysiac Cowherds (II-IV CE) ║ Pergamon - Mysia and the Troad

[116] Honors by Dancing Cowherds for the Proconsul Quadratus (after 109 CE) ║ Pergamon - Mysia and the Troad

Honors (frag.) by Dancing Cowherds for Julius Quadratus (109-138 CE) ║ Pergamon - Mysia and the Troad

Dedication of Two Altars to Dionysos Kathegemon and the Company (undated) ║ Pergamon - Mysia and the Troad

Dedication of an Altar to Dionysos Kathegemon by a Company (II CE) ║ Philadelphia - Lydia

Honors by Civic Institutions for a Hierophant of Dionysos Kathegemon (ca. 250 CE) ║ Philadelphia - Lydia

Honors for an Initiate of Dionysos Kathegemon (II CE) ║ Philadelphia - Lydia

Dedication to Dionysos by the Ritual-purifiers of Meter and Men (161 CE) ║ Saittai area [Kollyda] - Lydia

Grave Prepared by the Dionysiasts (167 CE) ║ Saittai - Lydia

Grave of a Teenaged Initiate of Dionysos (with relief) (240/241 CE) ║ Saittai area [Iaza] - Lydia

Grave of Apphianos with a Relief of a Bacchant (255-266 CE) ║ Saittai area [Kula] - Lydia

Decree (frag.) of Dionysiac Performers Concerning Contests (117-128 CE) ║ Sardis - Lydia

Decree (frag.) of Dionysiac Performers Concerning Quadrennial Competitions (117-138 CE) ║ Sardis - Lydia

Grave of Stratoneikos Prepared by Family and a Company (165/166 CE) ║ Thyatira area [Attaleia] - Lydia

Dedication to Dionysos Kathegemon by Initiates (II-III CE) ║ Akmoneia area [Sebaste] - Phrygia

Dedication to Dionysos Kathegemon by the Initiates (undated) ║ Akmoneia - Phrygia

Dedication of an Altar to the Manifest God Dionysos by Initiates (II CE) ║ Dorylaion area - Phrygia

Dedication of an Altar to Dionysos (imperial era) ║ Dorylaion - Phrygia

Dedication of an Altar to Zeus Dionysos by Koroseanian Initiates (undated) ║ Dorylaion area [Koroseanos] - Phrygia

Dedication of an Altar to Zeus Dionysos by the Keiouerenian (?) Initiates (undated) ║ Dorylaion area [Ilica] - Phrygia

[148] Dedication to Dionysos Kathegemon by a Hierophant (II CE) ║ Hierapolis - Phrygia

Decree (frag.) of the World-wide Performers of Dionysos (138-161 CE) ║ Laodikeia on the Lykos - Phrygia

Dedication of an Altar to Dionysos by Ptolemenian Initiates (II CE) ║ Nakoleia - Phrygia

Dedication of an Altar to Dionysos by Initiates with a Hierophant (undated) ║ Nakoleia - Phrygia

[166] Dedication with Honorary Membership in a Society for Emperor Trajan (98-117 CE) ║ Ephesos area [Thyaira] - Ionia

Fragment Mentioning Priests of Dionysos Phleos and of the Eleusinian Deities (I-II CE) ║ Ephesos - Ionia

[168] Honors by Initiates of the God Dionysos for Emperor Hadrian (117-138 CE) ║ Ephesos - Ionia

List of Participants in Sacrifices and Mysteries of Dionysos (117-138 CE) ║ Ephesos - Ionia

[173] Honors by Initiates for Commodus as the New Dionysos (180-192 CE) ║ Ephesos - Ionia

List of Functionaries and Participants in Mysteries of Dionysos (180-192 CE) ║ Ephesos - Ionia

List of Participants in Sacrifices and Mysteries for Dionysos (II CE) ║ Ephesos - Ionia

Fragment Mentioning Demetriasts and Initiates of Dionysos Phleos (177-192 CE) ║ Ephesos - Ionia

Fragment Involving the Initiates Who Wear Hair Cloth (II CE) ║ Ephesos - Ionia

Dedication of a Sacred Building to Dionysos and the Emperors (139-161 CE) ║ Erythrai - Ionia

Dedication of an Altar for the Brachyleitian Company (III CE) ║ Erythrai - Ionia

Regulations of a Dionysiac Cult Involving Societies (276/275 BCE) ║ Miletos - Ionia

[176] Grave of Alkmeionis Mentioning Devotees of the God Bacchos (ca. 200 BCE) ║ Miletos - Ionia

[178] Letter of Emperor Claudius to the Sacred Victors and Performers of Dionysos (48 CE) ║ Miletos - Ionia

[189] Honors by Devotees of the God Dionysos Breiseus for a Benefactor (I CE) ║ Smyrna - Ionia

[190] Subscriptions of the Initiates of Dionysos with Imperial Dedications (80/83 CE) ║ Smyrna - Ionia

Petition (frag.) of the Dionysiac Performers to Antoninus Pius with Rescript (150 CE) ║ Smyrna - Ionia

[193] Honors by Performers and Initiates of Dionysos Breiseus for a Benefactor (150-200 CE) ║ Smyrna - Ionia

[192] Letter of Emperor Marcus Aurelius to the Synod of Dionysos Breiseus (158 CE) ║ Smyrna - Ionia

Letter (frag.) from Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus to the Synod of Dionysos (161-163 CE) ║ Smyrna - Ionia

[195] Regulations of a Sanctuary of the God Dionysos Bromios (II CE) ║ Smyrna - Ionia

Dedication (frag.) to an Emperor Involving Dionysos “Before the City” (II CE) ║ Smyrna - Ionia

Mosaic Floor Laid for a Bacchic Association or Building (193-211 CE) ║ Smyrna - Ionia

Bronze Seal of the Breisean Initiates (247-249 CE) ║ Smyrna - Ionia

Coin Issued by Ionian Dionysiac Performers (155-145 BCE) ║ Teos - Ionia

Honors by a Society of Dionysiasts for Hediste the Priestess (I BCE-I CE) ║ Teos - Ionia

Honors by Dionysiac Initiates for Pisoninus (117-138 CE) ║ Teos - Ionia

Honors by Dionysiac Performers for Tiberius Claudius Philistes (imperial era) ║ Teos - Ionia

Honors by Dionysiac Performers for Peisandros (undated) ║ Teos - Ionia

Grave (frag.) Prepared by Panathenaists and Dionysiasts (undated) ║ Teos - Ionia

Honorary Decree for the Poet Longianos by the Synod of Dionysos (127 CE) ║ Aphrodisias - Caria

Epigram on Initiation into the Rites of Dionysos (II-I BCE) ║ Halikarnassos - Caria

Decree of the Knidians Concerning a Temple Used by Bacchos-devotees (350-300 BCE) ║ Knidos - Caria

[203] Donations by Initiates of Dionysos (II CE) ║ Magnesia on the Maeander - Caria

[202] Oracle from Delphi on Dionysiac Societies (ca. 278-250 BCE / 150 CE) ║ Magnesia on the Maeander - Caria

Dedication (frag.) of a Building in Connection with a Dionysiac Group (?) (I CE) ║ Mylasa (?) - Caria

[184] Honors by Dionysiac World-wide Performers for T. Aelius Alkibiades (ca. 142 CE) ║ Nysa - Caria

Honorary Decree for a Functionary in Dionysiac Mysteries (undated) ║ Stratonikeia area [Lagina] - Caria

[218] Funerary Dedication to Dionysos and the Initiates (I-II CE) ║ Seleukeia on the Kalykadnos area - Cilicia

Honorary Decree (frag.) of the Theatrical Synod of Performers (117-138 CE) ║ Ankyra - Galatia

Honors by Performers for Ulpius Aelius Pompeianus (128 CE) ║ Ankyra - Galatia

[212] Honorary Decree by Performers for Pompeianus Regarding a Mystic Contest (128/129 CE) ║ Ankyra - Galatia

Honors (frag.) by Dionysiac Performers for Januarius Licinianus (150-200 CE) ║ Pessinous - Galatia

Dedication of a Clock and Altar by Competaliasts (after 125 BCE) ║ Delos - Southwestern islands

Dedication to Dionysos and Sarapis by Contributors (200-166 BCE) ║ Delos - Southwestern islands

[236] Dedication to Hermes, Dionysos, and Apollo by Wine-dealers (98/7 BCE) ║ Delos - Southwestern islands

Honors (frag.) by a Synod for T. Flavius Demetrios and Theano (98-117 CE) ║ Delos - Southwestern islands

Regulations (frag.) for Dionysiac Festivals and Performers (ca. 290 BCE) ║ Eretria on Euboia - Southwestern islands

Honors by Cowherds for Zopyros (I BCE) ║ Eretria on Euboia - Southwestern islands

Building: Hall of the Initiates (200-250 CE) ║ Melos - Southwestern islands

Statue of a Hierophant Dedicated by Initiates (200-250 CE) ║ Melos - Southwestern islands

Funerary Honors by Initiates of Dionysos for Isia (II CE) ║ Tenos - Southwestern islands

Foundation by Argea and Honors by the Association of Anthister (ca. 200 BCE) ║ Thera - Southwestern islands

Dedication to Dionysos Thrax Involving an Association of Soldiers (II BCE) ║ Thera - Southwestern islands

Honors by Bacchists for Ladamos the Royal Official and Family (II BCE) ║ Thera - Southwestern islands

Dedication of a Mask of Dionysos for a Society of Elders (ca. 250-200 BCE) ║ Kition on Cyprus - Southeastern islands

Honors with Mention of an Honorary Member of the Performers (142-105 BCE) ║ Paphos on Cyprus - Southeastern islands

Honorary Decree by Dionysiac Performers for Isodoros (114-106 BCE) ║ Paphos on Cyprus - Southeastern islands

Honors for Kallippos an Honorary Member of the Performers (105-104 BCE) ║ Paphos on Cyprus - Southeastern islands

Honors for Potamon an Honorary Member of the Performers (105-95 BCE) ║ Paphos on Cyprus - Southeastern islands

Honors (frag.) for an Honorary Member of the Performers (105-88 BCE) ║ Paphos on Cyprus - Southeastern islands

Foundation of a Familial Society by Diomedon (310-290 BCE) ║ Kos - Southeastern islands

Grave Boundary Marker (frag.) of a Society of Bacchiasts with Eumeliodoros (I BCE-I CE) ║ Kos - Southeastern islands

[246] Honors by Associations for a Civic Priest of the Augusti (imperial era) ║ Nisyros - Southeastern islands

[251] Honors by Numerous Associations for a Priest (ca. 125-100 BCE) ║ Lindos on Rhodes - Southeastern islands

Honors by Associations for Nikassa the Priestess and Her Son (10 CE) ║ Lindos on Rhodes - Southeastern islands

Honors (frag.) by Associations for Lapheides the Priest (10 CE) ║ Lindos on Rhodes - Southeastern islands

Honors by Devotees of Dionysos, Athena, and Zeus for a Benefactor (I CE) ║ Lindos on Rhodes - Southeastern islands

Honors for Antipatros Mentioning Dionysiac Mysteries (ca. 100 CE) ║ Lindos on Rhodes - Southeastern islands

Honors (frag.) by Twenty Associations for a Man (III BCE) ║ Rhodos on Rhodes - Southeastern islands

[255] Dossier of Dionysodoros the Alexandrian (II BCE) ║ Rhodos on Rhodes - Southeastern islands

[256] Grave of the Alexandrians Iacchos and Dionysodoros (II BCE) ║ Rhodos on Rhodes - Southeastern islands

Honors by Apolloniasts and Others for a Naval Commander (ca. 84 BCE) ║ Rhodos on Rhodes - Southeastern islands

Honors (frag.) by Various Associations (imperial era) ║ Rhodos on Rhodes - Southeastern islands

Honors (frag.) by Sarapiasts and Other Associations (II BCE) ║ Rhodos on Rhodes - Southeastern islands

[260] Dedication to Dionysos and the Initiates (imperial era) ║ Mytilene on Lesbos - Northern islands

[264] Honors by a Dionysiac Association for a Hierophant (150-200 CE) ║ Thasos - Northern islands

[265] Honors by a Dionysiac Association for a Hierophant (211-217 CE) ║ Thasos - Northern islands

[266] Honors by Performers for the Pantomime Julius Paris (117-138 CE) ║ Apamea - Syria and Phoenicia

Collection of Imperial and Other Documents about Dionysiac Performers and Hatres (288 CE) ║ Oxyrhynchos - Upper Egypt

Honorific Decree for Lysimachos by Performers Devoted to Dionysos (ca. 246 BCE) ║ Ptolemaïs Hermiou - Upper Egypt

[298] Honorary Decree and Membership List of Dionysiac Performers (269–246 BCE) ║ Ptolemais Hermiou - Upper Egypt

[297] Honorary Decree by Dionysiac Performers for Dionysios (ca. 269–246 BCE) ║ Ptolemais Hermiou - Upper Egypt

Dedication by a Synod of Royalists (143 BCE) ║ Setis Island - Upper Egypt

Dedication of a Vessel to the Kymaian Brotherhood’s Gods (ca. 100 CE) ║ Neapolis - Campania

[328] Grave of a Boy Who Performed the Rites of Dionysos (I–II CE) ║ Rome - Latium

[327] Grave of a Boy and Initiate in the Mysteries (III-IV CE) ║ Rome, Albani village - Latium

Honors by Performers of Aphrodite for Proconsul Caninus and for Sopater (46-42 BCE) ║ Syracuse - Sicily

[330] Statue for Pompeia Agrippinilla Dedicated by Initiates of Dionysos (160-70 CE) ║ Torre Nova - Latium

Grave of Julia Prepared by Quintilius Elpidephoros (II CE) ║ Tusculum - Latium